The Unthinkable

Just not a good movie. The first half is a drama which didn't quite manage to get me to care about the characters so it was just boring if not frustrating. The second half is more actiony but it's not well paced and the plot isn't clear, so even though it was the actiony part it didn't even hold my attention. Pretty forgettable really.

Although the suspense is very well managed, the plot is poor even with a two hours duration and in the end it just looks like black propaganda against Russia.

A great catastrophe-movie

It was just ok. For low budget it wasn't bad but unrealistic. Sure an attack could happen but there was almost no defense at all. It's like they had a total of 100 soldiers total . Again I would never watch it again but it passed the time

Superb. Difficult to characterise though. Russia invades Sweden with a love story and a dose of the X-files! With the success of Occupied and Russia's current degradation of Ukraine's power supply how did the writers and producers get this so right?!

This movie is diving into the usual father-son, family, our-people and love-of -my-live relationships standards as we've seen so many, but there is an interesting substory above that that makes it standing out, so if you are into combinations of the known and the unknown it might be interesting for you

There is no point in watching this movie. It's dull and despite all the "disaster" stuff thrown in, nothing of interest happens. I actually started fast forwarding through the last 20 minutes or so just to get it over with.

HAHA, this has to be one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen. It is also beyond an enormous insult to the military of Sweden. Transformers the movie was more based in reality. It starts as a slow burn before going to crazy town. The only positive is some decent effects at times.

The Unthinkable (Den blomsterdid nu kommer) is a low-budget, Swedish action/disaster film following the character Alex and his estranged father Björn who are forced to reconnect when the country falls under attack from an unknown entity. This is really not the film the poster or the brief synopsis on Prime make it out to be but I guess they market it that way to try and entice more viewers. I'd advise that you do not go into this film expecting a typical action or disaster film as it's anything but. For the most part, the film is really well shot and manages to generate a very atmospheric and moody tone complete with a great ambient score. The action set-pieces that do exist in the film are executed well and the effects are very good especially considering the budget the filmmakers had to work with. As a side effect of the low budget and alluded to above, the film focusses mostly on the behaviour and reactions of the people caught up in the middle of all the confusion as opposed to the action itself - we mostly hear about things rather than witness them ourselves. It's a very human and personalised approach to the disaster genre, much like films like Cloverfield or Godzilla (2014). The pace only really starts to pick up around the halfway mark and the first half of the film is so painfully slow that it will likely turn away impatient viewers or those who were expecting something different. Really, this film could do with being about twenty minutes shorter (probably taken out of the first hour) to help with the pacing but the second half of the film and especially the ending is excellent.

Much of the beginning of the movie is watching people in dire need of therapy interact with their equally dysfunctional loved ones. If you enjoy angst, the first half will not disappoint. Around midway turns into a disaster movie and that's where it becomes interesting. They say to tell a good story, you need to create interesting characters and then make them suffer. Well, they got half of it right. I'll let you decide which half. Seriously, skip to the middle if you want action.