Movie review: "The Unthinkable"

Spoilers ahead.

What did I just watch?  Imdb.com lists The Unthinkable, released in Sweden in June 2018, as action, romance, sci-fi, and thriller.  The two-hour movie lacks any sort of romance, although a huge amount of time is spent following Alex and his girlfriend Anna.  Theirs seems to be a completely platonic relationship and has absolutely no passion.

Christoffer Nordenrot, who plays Alex, co-wrote the film with Victor Danell, who directed it.  It is similar to the case where the least-athletic kid is chosen to play on the team only because he owns the ball.  Nordenrot maintains the same sullen expression throughout the movie, but at least we know how he got the role. The viewer is not given any reason to sympathize with him.

The film follows a series of mysterious attacks on Stockholm, with plenty of time in between “attacks”.  First, a bridge collapses about thirty minutes into the film, and it is a while before anything else close to exciting happens.  The trailer contains most of the action sequences anyway.  The viewer is led to think of an alien attack, but the only science-fiction aspect is the rain being used as a bioweapon.  The true nature of the attacks is never made clear but the ending, which makes no sense, implies Russia is behind the invasion.

The enemy helicopters are shown as being lethal, but they fail to shoot down a single-prop plane, piloted by Alex’s seemingly indestructible father.

Between the plot holes, the confusing action sequences, and a boring romance story, it’s not one I might watch again.  

I rated it 5/10.

ABBA reunites for the first time in over 30 years!

Over the weekend at a private gala to celebrate 50 years of collaboration of song-writers Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-frid Lyngstadon joined them for an improptu performance of "Me and I".

Never say never:

“We took a break in ‘82, and it was meant to be a break,” Ulvaeus said in 2014. “It’s still a break and will remain so. You’ll never see us on stage again.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/06/abba-first-public-performance-30-years-me-and-i-bjorn-ulvaeus-benny-andersson?CMP=fb_gu

Studs in Stockholm

Many good reasons to return to Stockholm!

Day 13 (cont.) - Leaving Stockholm

We were late getting back to the Prinsendam but they waited for our tour. :) The trip out was three hours, just as it was that morning. However, the pilots won't navigate after dark so we had to make it out before sunset. Of course, up here the sun doesn't set until close to midnight so we had a big window of opportunity.

Fuzzy watches as the Prinsendam pulls away from the dock.

Right name, wrong colors.

Two other cruise ships left right behind us, one ahead of us.

This ferry was feeling rather adventurous.

Our towel animal that night.

Still following us in a zig-zag pattern.

A smaller boat feels adventurous as well.

Micki takes a break from the hot tub to snap some pics.

Day 13 (cont.) - Stockholm by bus

As we drove around the city on our tour, we got to see a lot of this magnificent city.

This is a museum across the street from the Vasa Museum.

Stockholm is built on a number of islands with 54 bridges connecting them.

The ferry boat is directly over the spot where the Vasa sank in the seventeenth century.