valuable life lesson represent you can not always judge a book by it cover . usually that mean beautiful thing may be hide by a ugly exterior . in the case of unspeakable it be the exact opposite . it actually hurt to write the following review because it pretty much admits i be a superficial person who be suckered into watch a movie that be stash in the box and write up of a much more interesting look film . unspeakable be a very nearly perfect storm of bad movie making . hamper by any number of problem and one of the bad be a ham hand anti capital punishment message that try to put a human face on the issue . the problem be that it have a lot of competition and unspeakable do not stand up very well to it . in fact and it doesn not stand up well in a light breeze . grant many movie aren not go to compare favourably to the green mile and but in the green mile similar theme be dealt with . prisoner in the green mile be treat compassionately and it become deeply effective in decry capital punishment through the action of a sadistically incompetent guard . in comparison and every guard in unspeakable be both sadistic and incompetent . the problem be that the film seem to believe that if one mean guard be good and 100 mean guard will be great . this and i assure you and isn not the case . if you be go for satire it might work . the tragedy ( for the film maker and comedy for u ) be that it take itself extremely seriously and begin to implode at every opening . pavan grover write the screenplay and there be glimpse of good idea . there be an unfriendly look at religion and the nature of good and evil and the capacity for cruelty and the psychological and philosophical motivation for it . find these blur and hide theme though isn not worth the effort . there be clever aphorisms scatter like breadcrumb for hansel and gretel but they do not lead anywhere . i already mention the green mile and that it be one of at least three superior film that unspeakable unsuccessfully compare itself to . from the night of the hunter come the tattooed knuckle of love and hate as well a an attempt at the cool charisma and menace of robert mitchum . from the silence of the lamb there come a psychiatrist and serial killer play an information game . there be many failure that contribute to unspeakable and it near total collapse . the dialogue be comically horrendous . the music sound like the theme song for clown at a carnival and it play with full comic effect . as weak a the grover drive script be and the grover drive performance be even bad . he dreadful and it spread through the rest of the cast like a virus . the director need to take some of the blame for his failure to reign in the actor and the script ( although when your lead actor be also the writer and the producer . ) . it be a vision less and clunky mess . the only bright light be lance henrickson . no matter how bad the film and he always approach it with stoic and reliable professionalism . i be amaze he do not get sweep up like dennis hopper and jeff fahey in the sea of bad thing . fahey turn in at best a bemused performance and be clearly remember the good old day . there be an exchange of dialogue near the end of the film between henrickson and meyer . h represent you be really fascinate by him weren not you . m represent yeah and grotesquely fascinate . i probably could have study him for year . h represent yeah and but at what cost to your psyche . that really what unspeakable be all about . yeah and you could watch it . but at what cost to your psyche . lance henrickson be far too good for a movie like this . dennis hopper be too good for a movie like this . dina meyer be too good for a movie like this . jeff fahey and i repeat and jeff fahey be too good for a movie like this . and let be honest represent you and i be too good for this . life be too short . go hug your kid and promise to protect them from all the bad thing in the world . start with unspeakable and you could do a lot bad . take my word for it and avoid this dog at all cost .