Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Damned United) takes a break from real-life characters to play an American Muslim terrorist in this thought-provoking, if occasionally clumsy, psychological thriller. The British star gives a powerful performance as a former military man who claims to have placed nuclear bombs in three American cities; now in custody, it's up to by-the-book FBI agent Carrie-Anne Moss and cheerfully brutal black ops interrogator Samuel L Jackson to find out where the explosives are before they go off. Most of the action is confined to the interrogation centre and although director Gregor Jordan succeeds in ratcheting up some countdown tension, he is more interested in exploring the moral issues surrounding the use of torture, with Jackson prepared to do the unthinkable to get Sheen to break. It goes off the rails in the final act, but it's an intriguing thriller all the same.

The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.