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Unbreakable (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 146 Fresh: 98  Rotten:48 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.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins

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 unharmed. After this miraculous incident, he's contacted by the mysterious Elijah Price (Samuel... 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]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: Barry Mendel, Sam Mercer, M. Night Shyamalan
Composer: James Newton Howard

DVD Info

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Apr 1, 2008

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Disc Features:

  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English

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The old magic fails to re-materialize, thanks to overwrought melodrama and contrived plot developments.

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07/16/08
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter
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03/31/08
David Ansen
Newsweek
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3/4

a little too pretentious but still good

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01/07/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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4/5

Shyamalan takes us in close, picking up sad and angry whispers; his people almost never raise their voices.

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07/25/07
Rob Gonsalves
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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
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04/27/07
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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3/4

Shyamalan has already established his own personal stamp for his films.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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3/4

Remarkable, dark, and surprising.

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10/01/05
Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies
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9/10

Un hommage fulgurant à la bande dessinée dont bon nombre des adaptations qui ont suivi auraient gagné à prendre comme exemple.

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09/22/05
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama
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Four scenes had me completely enthralled.

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12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
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3/4

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.

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06/26/04
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
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Might have made an interesting episode of the X-Files, but it fails as a full length movie.

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12/30/03
Scott Nash
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05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather
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3/4

When was the last time a big budget Hollywood thriller (with Bruce Willis, no less) came off as understated?

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05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly
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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.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online
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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.

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01/10/03
Nick Davis
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...the work of a movie-savvy intelligence who understands exactly what he's doing

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12/08/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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I enjoyed the newer edition much more than last year's model.

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12/08/02
Ron Wells
Film Threat
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11/06/02
Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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