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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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You can't help but admire the craftsmanship, but you also wonder whether there's anything beyond it.

Full Review Source: Flipside Movie Emporium | comment Comment
10/24/01
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

Genesis of an unwitting hero.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
10/10/01
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

Shyamalan is a brilliant young director; in Unbreakable he may not have a lot to say, but I like the way he says it.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
07/05/01
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Thrill-kill plots, cardboard characters and zap-pow editing are not for Shyamalan, who takes his good, thoughtful time to snare audiences in his dark web.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
06/04/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Dreary though spiritually sound.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
05/02/01
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

The trouble with the movie is its plot, which begins with a richly enigmatic aura, then becomes more silly and superficial with every new twist.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
04/20/01
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
N/R

Smashing.

Full Review Source: Movieline | comment Comment
04/16/01
Karen Moline
Karen Moline
Movieline

Shyamalan has shown himself to be an outstanding master of atmosphere and a riveting storyteller.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
04/16/01
George Perry
George Perry
BBC

The story is propelled by the idea that we live in a world so desperate for heroes, that people can go to extreme measures to either imagine or create them.

Full Review Source: WBAI Web Radio | comment Comment
03/24/01
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
WBAI Web Radio

Although the subject matter is fantastical, Shyamalan keeps it down to earth with moody realism and a refusal to overstate anything.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
02/27/01
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Los resultados son en muchos aspectos superiores a lo realizado por Shyamalan con anterioridad

Full Review Source: Moviola | comment Comment
02/07/01
Jorge Avila Andrade
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola

...a labored, shallow exercise in cheap thrills that is more interested in playing with the audience's mind than uncovering a decent, thought-provoking narrative.

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
02/07/01
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org
N/R

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02/07/01
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Unhappily, Unbreakable's codes and moral lines are too familiar and too visible.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
02/07/01
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

Great performances, moments and ideas. If it doesn’t provide the tidy ending that made The Sixth Sense a talking-point, that might not be a bad thing.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
02/07/01
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

It has some good atmosphere and a nice twist at the end, but the ends of this film, to paraphrase Ambrose Bierce, are too far apart.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
01/01/01
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

An uncommonly absorbing movie.

Full Review Source: Credo | comment Comment
12/07/00
David Forsmark
David Forsmark
Credo
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01/01/00
Ebert & Roeper

Brilliant and steady camera work produces an eerie ambiance that keeps audiences hooked. But for what? It all relies too heavily on a payoff that derails before its time.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
01/01/00
E! Online

You'll like the story enough and the way it unravels in the last 15 minutes is awfully schweeet. Just don't go in expecting The Sixth Sense Part Two.

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