The Unthinkable
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: May 7, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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5
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiMay 11, 2021
It's impressively staged, especially considering the low budget, and contains a number of action beats that put their high-priced Hollywood competition to shame. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnMay 11, 2021
A riveting disaster movie that’s actually heartbreaking, and doesn’t so much delight in world-ending events as it recognizes that surviving them never ensures a happy ending. Getting through the ordeal is only half the battle. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 11, 2021
It packs everything but the kitchen sink (though it does bring the entire Swedish government) into a two-hour-plus survival story that mostly keeps you on the edge of your seat, especially once the bravura action scenes kick in and you start wondering how the heck the filmmakers pulled them off. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMay 6, 2021
A lot of big action pictures add “a little heart” between the thrills, but The Unthinkable reverses the ratio, centering emotions. Some genre fans may be impatient with this approach at first, but by the end, it really works. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 11, 2021
It’s the depictions of social breakdown, Swedish tempers exploding, soldiers questioning their priorities in an absence of orders and the action beats — Björn’s crackpot defense of the power station — that drive the narrative, punching through one Big Effect, crash or firefight right into the next. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveyMay 11, 2021
Despite some strikingly accomplished elements, the awkward whole never quite gels, sewn-together parts from “Red Dawn,” “Independence Day,” et al., failing to cohere amid major logic gaps, not to mention lead characters more off-putting than interesting. Read full review
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