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* CuffsOffRubWrists: The Bound Man recovers quickly once he's untied despite complaining about his "hands turning blue".
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''Unknown'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film directed by Colombian filmmaker Simon Brand, starring Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/GregKinnear, Creator/BridgetMoynahan, Creator/JoePantoliano, Creator/PeterStormare, and Creator/BarryPepper. It's about a group of men apparently kidnapped and locked in a factory, with no memory of how they arrived there. Piecing together information around them, they realize that some were kidnapped and some were the kidnappers. They decide they must work together to figure out how to get away before the gang that captured them returns.
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''Unknown'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film directed by Colombian filmmaker Simon Brand, starring Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/GregKinnear, Creator/BridgetMoynahan, Creator/JoePantoliano, Creator/PeterStormare, and Creator/BarryPepper. It's about a group of men apparently kidnapped and locked in a factory, with no memory of how they arrived there.there, due to an amnesia-inducing gas. Piecing together information around them, they realize that some were kidnapped and some were the kidnappers. They decide they must work together to figure out how to get away before the gang that captured them returns.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Jean Jacket]] is a ReverseMole, but also follows his own agenda...[[spoiler:to kill Coles and blame it on the kidnappers so he and Coles' wife can take his fortune and get married]].
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* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Jean Jacket]] is a ReverseMole, [[TheMole mole]], but also follows his own agenda...[[spoiler:to kill Coles and blame it on the kidnappers so he and Coles' wife can take his fortune and get married]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket and Coles' wife]] were having an affair.
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''Unknown'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film directed by Colombian filmmaker Simon Brand, starring Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/GregKinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Creator/BridgetMoynahan, Creator/JoePantoliano, Creator/PeterStormare, and Creator/BarryPepper. It's about a group of men apparently kidnapped and locked in a factory, with no memory of how they arrived there. Piecing together information around them, they realize that some were kidnapped and some were the kidnappers. They decide they must work together to figure out how to get away before the gang that captured them returns.
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: Averted. Jean Jacket carries a picture of his daughter with him, but being TheProtagonist he has sufficient PlotArmor to live through the events.
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* Music/OdeToJoy: The tune is being whistled by the group at some point.
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* Music/OdeToJoy: The tune is being whistled by the group at some point.OneWordTitle
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''Unknown'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film directed by Colombian filmmaker Simon Brand, starring Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/GregKinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Creator/JoePantoliano Creator/JoePantoliano, Creator/PeterStormare, and Creator/BarryPepper. It's about a group of men apparently kidnapped and locked in a factory, with no memory of how they arrived there. Piecing together information around them, they realize that some were kidnapped and some were the kidnappers. They decide they must work together to figure out how to get away before the gang that captured them returns.
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* RansomDrop: The kidnappers order the ransom to be stashed in a public locker. Though Police are surveilling the area with cameras, they fail to realize that the locker has no bottom and the ransom fell through into the station's basement where it was picked up. [[spoiler: And it's kinda strange that the person dropping the ransom bag wouldn't notice that it fell, eh?]]
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* RansomDrop: The kidnappers order the ransom to be stashed in a public locker. Though Police are surveilling the area with cameras, they fail to realize that the locker has no bottom and the ransom fell through into the station's basement where it was picked up. [[spoiler: And it's kinda strange that the person dropping the ransom bag wouldn't notice that it fell, eh?]]eh? Although they couldn't have done much to re-direct the watching police without betraying their presence, if they had.]]
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''Unknown'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film directed by Colombian filmmaker Simon Brand, starring Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/GregKinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Creator/JoePantoliano and Creator/BarryPepper. It's about a group of men apparently kidnapped and locked in a factory factory, with no memory of how they arrived there. Piecing together information around them, they realize that some were kidnapped and some were the kidnappers. They decide they must work together to figure out how to get away before the gang that captured them returns.
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''Unknown'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film directed by Colombian filmmaker Simon Brand, starring Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/GregKinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Joe Pantoliano Creator/JoePantoliano and Creator/BarryPepper. It's about a group of men kidnapped and locked in a factory with no memory of how they arrived there. Piecing together information around them, they realize that some were kidnapped and some were the kidnappers. They decide they must work together to figure out how to get away before the gang that captured them returns.
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* DigYourOwnGrave: [[spoiler:Broken Nose and Coles]] are doing it.
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* {{Asspull}}: The last twist was not [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] or hinted at with a ChekhovsGun or similar and hence feels tagged on.
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''Unknown'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film directed by Colombian filmmaker Simon Brand, starring Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/GregKinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Joe Antoliano Pantoliano and Creator/BarryPepper. It's about a group of men kidnapped and locked in a factory with no memory of how they arrived there. Piecing together information around them, they realize that some were kidnapped and some were the kidnappers. They decide they must work together to figure out how to get away before the gang that captured them returns.
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* Amnesia tropes: All over the place:
** AmnesiacDissonance: The fear of this trope drives the suspense. The five men find clues that some of them are criminals, but don't know which of their own number are the bad guys, and need to figure it out before the rest of the kidnapping gang returns.
** AmnesiacLiar: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] had memories of helping to abduct the targets. The criminals recognize him. Therefore, he's certain that he's one of the kidnappers. [[spoiler:He was... except he's an undercover cop and his criminal partners unwittingly fooled him about his true identity.]]
** CriminalAmnesiac: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] is actually [[spoiler:an undercover cop ... Who set up the kidnapping in the first place]].
** EasyAmnesia: Not horribly easy. It's the result of a chemical, and it's stated that they would have died if they'd inhaled much more of it.
** IdentityAmnesia: The basis of the movie. There are at least two kidnap victims and at least two kidnappers... but no one remembers which is which.
** LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the sense that characters regain their memory conveniently in small enough pieces and in the right order so that the whole picture doesn't get figured out until the very end.
** AmnesiacDissonance: The fear of this trope drives the suspense. The five men find clues that some of them are criminals, but don't know which of their own number are the bad guys, and need to figure it out before the rest of the kidnapping gang returns.
** AmnesiacLiar: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] had memories of helping to abduct the targets. The criminals recognize him. Therefore, he's certain that he's one of the kidnappers. [[spoiler:He was... except he's an undercover cop and his criminal partners unwittingly fooled him about his true identity.]]
** CriminalAmnesiac: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] is actually [[spoiler:an undercover cop ... Who set up the kidnapping in the first place]].
** EasyAmnesia: Not horribly easy. It's the result of a chemical, and it's stated that they would have died if they'd inhaled much more of it.
** IdentityAmnesia: The basis of the movie. There are at least two kidnap victims and at least two kidnappers... but no one remembers which is which.
** LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the sense that characters regain their memory conveniently in small enough pieces and in the right order so that the whole picture doesn't get figured out until the very end.
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* Amnesia tropes: All over the place:
**AmnesiacDissonance: The fear of this trope drives the suspense. The five men find clues that some of them are criminals, but don't know which of their own number are the bad guys, and need to figure it out before the rest of the kidnapping gang returns.
** * AmnesiacLiar: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] had memories of helping to abduct the targets. The criminals recognize him. Therefore, he's certain that he's one of the kidnappers. [[spoiler:He was... except he's an undercover cop and his criminal partners unwittingly fooled him about his true identity.]]
** CriminalAmnesiac: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] is actually [[spoiler:an undercover cop ... Who set up the kidnapping in the first place]].
** EasyAmnesia: Not horribly easy. It's the result of a chemical, and it's stated that they would have died if they'd inhaled much more of it.
** IdentityAmnesia: The basis of the movie. There are at least two kidnap victims and at least two kidnappers... but no one remembers which is which.
** LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the sense that characters regain their memory conveniently in small enough pieces and in the right order so that the whole picture doesn't get figured out until the very end.]]
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** CriminalAmnesiac: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] is actually [[spoiler:an undercover cop ... Who set up the kidnapping in the first place]].
** EasyAmnesia: Not horribly easy. It's the result of a chemical, and it's stated that they would have died if they'd inhaled much more of it.
** IdentityAmnesia: The basis of the movie. There are at least two kidnap victims and at least two kidnappers... but no one remembers which is which.
** LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the sense that characters regain their memory conveniently in small enough pieces and in the right order so that the whole picture doesn't get figured out until the very end.
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* CriminalAmnesiac: [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] is actually [[spoiler:an undercover cop ... Who set up the kidnapping in the first place]].
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the sense that characters regain their memory conveniently in small enough pieces and in the right order so that the whole picture doesn't get figured out until the very end.
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* FemmeFatal: [[spoiler:Coles' wife]] who brought out the worst in Jean Jacket.
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* CassandraTruth: It turned out that [[spoiler: Broken Nose]] was actually absolutely right about the identity of [[spoiler: himself, Coles and Jean Jacket (he ''was'' a kidnapper)]].
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* AmbiguousEnding: Depending on what [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] chooses to do about the final revelation the ending, may turn out to be anything from a fairly decent [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] to bleakest [[DownerEnding Downer]].
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* AmbiguousEnding: Depending on what [[spoiler:Jean Jacket]] chooses to do about the final revelation revelation, the ending, ending may turn out to be anything from a fairly decent [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] to bleakest [[DownerEnding Downer]].
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''Unknown'' is a 2006 American crime-thriller film directed by Colombian filmmaker Simon Brand, starring Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/GregKinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Joe antoliano Antoliano and Creator/BarryPepper. It's about a group of men kidnapped and locked in a factory with no memory of how they arrived there. Piecing together information around them, they realize that some were kidnapped and some were the kidnappers. They decide they must work together to figure out how to get away before the gang that captured them returns.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Jean Jacket]] is a ReverseMole, but also follows his own agenda[[note]]...to kill Coles and blame it on the kidnappers so he and Coles' wife can take his fortune and get married[[/note]].
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* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Jean Jacket]] is a ReverseMole, but also follows his own agenda[[note]]...to agenda...[[spoiler:to kill Coles and blame it on the kidnappers so he and Coles' wife can take his fortune and get married[[/note]].married]].
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* RansomDrop: The kidnappers order the ransom to be stashed in a public locker. Though Police are surveilling the area with cameras, they fail to realize that the locker has no bottom and the ransom fell through into the station's basement where it was picked up. [[spoiler: And it's kinda strange that the person dropping the ransom bag wouldn't notice that it fell, eh?]]]
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* RansomDrop: The kidnappers order the ransom to be stashed in a public locker. Though Police are surveilling the area with cameras, they fail to realize that the locker has no bottom and the ransom fell through into the station's basement where it was picked up. [[spoiler: And it's kinda strange that the person dropping the ransom bag wouldn't notice that it fell, eh?]]]eh?]]
