Some audiences may find the ending silly, some may not find the ending a big deal, and some will be completely blown away. But you'll just have to watch and find out what the big deal is, won't you?
Unbreakable (2000)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:104
Rotten:50
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: With a weaker ending, Unbreakable is not as a good as The Sixth Sense. However, it is a quietly suspenseful film that intrigues and engages, taking the audience through unpredictable twists and turns along the way.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] mature thematic elements including some disturbing violent content, and for a crude sexual reference
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 22, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $92,914,916
Synopsis: UNBREAKABLE stars Bruce Willis as David Dunne, a Philadelphia security guard and the sole survivor of a disasterous train wreck. Not only is David still alive after the crash--he's completely... UNBREAKABLE stars Bruce Willis as David Dunne, a Philadelphia security guard and the sole survivor of a disasterous train wreck. Not only is David still alive after the crash--he's completely unharmed. After this miraculous incident, he's contacted by the mysterious Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), a dealer of comic book art who seems to have the opposite physicality--his bones tend to snap like twigs. As Elijah attempts to help the reluctant hero realize his superhuman potential, David tries to make amends with his estranged wife (Robin Wright Penn) and son (Spencer Treat Clark). Following the runaway success of THE SIXTH SENSE, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan once again teams up with Willis for another bleak supernatural tale with a surprising finale. Although Willis and Jackson are excellent in their roles, the highlights of the film are Eduardo Serra's cinematography and Shyamalan's direction, which are eerily atmospheric and inventive--in certain sequences, for example, entire scenes are shot as reflections on glass. UNBREAKABLE is a superhero film at heart, but Shyamalan's somber aesthetic transforms it into something far more intriguing. [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Spencer Treat Clark
Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: Barry Mendel, Sam Mercer, M. Night Shyamalan
Composer: James Newton Howard
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
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Reviews for Unbreakable
With all these superlatives, how could Shyamalan so badly misjudge vital elements to the story? The melodramatic elements take away substantially from much of what could otherwise be hailed as a masterpiece.
The characters (especially Willis’) are drab and uninteresting, and the story, even allowing for the supernatural overtones, is unconvincing.
The old magic fails to re-materialize, thanks to overwrought melodrama and contrived plot developments.
Shyamalan takes us in close, picking up sad and angry whispers; his people almost never raise their voices.
The dialogue has more pauses than a High School production of Samuel Beckett. And while that works up to a point, you find yourself wanting to grab the characters and shake them out of their introspective stupors.
With Unbreakable , Mr. Shyamalan establishes himself as a distinctive auteur with a very personal style.
Shyamalan has already established his own personal stamp for his films.
Whereas The Sixth Sense left audiences surprised but surprisingly comfortable, this more mature and ambitious movie preserves its ambiguities and keeps everyone guessing.
Un hommage fulgurant à la bande dessinée dont bon nombre des adaptations qui ont suivi auraient gagné à prendre comme exemple.
Unbreakable is an extraordinarily quiet movie. Impatient audience members will probably give up on the movie early, and they'll miss out.
Shyamalan has a way to go before ascending to the level of Alfred Hitchcock, the uncontested master of psychological suspense, but he clearly wants to do so.
Might have made an interesting episode of the X-Files, but it fails as a full length movie.
When was the last time a big budget Hollywood thriller (with Bruce Willis, no less) came off as understated?
It is filled with interesting choices from behind the camera, giving a sometimes skewed perspective of the world, and meaningful silences in the dialogue, reminiscent of Pinter.
A depressing, definitive case of a film that experiences in its third and final act what one could either call, charitably, a total loss of its convictions, or, less charitably, a total brain aneurysm.
...the work of a movie-savvy intelligence who understands exactly what he's doing
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