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Critics 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.
Critic 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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With Unbreakable , Mr. Shyamalan establishes himself as a distinctive auteur with a very personal style.
Whereas The Sixth Sense left audiences surprised but surprisingly comfortable, this more mature and ambitious movie preserves its ambiguities and keeps everyone guessing.
Samuel L. Jackson plays a comic-book-art collector named Elijah, as in the prophet, and his stare could probably burn a hole through Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
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.
What Unbreakable shows is Mr. Shyamalan's remarkable growth as a director.
An engaging and intriguing yarn.
(It won't) appeal to all... (but) for those interested in understanding the psychology of what makes heroes and villains tick, there are few films I could recommend higher.
This compelling conundrum of a film marks the maturity of Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan as a distinctive, even remarkable filmmaker.
By watching this masterpiece, you'll realize that not all movies of this genre need to be driven mostly by action spectacle and one-liners.
I think Unbreakable might just be his [M. Knight Shyamalan's] masterpiece -- a movie that was truly ahead of its time.
Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan's penchant for a deliberate narrative is certainly in full effect with Unbreakable...
Interesting premise, but ultimately disappointing.
many consider this one of Shymalans weakest films but I think its his best. What I mean is that while the Sixth Sense is okay, and very innovative, it just doesn't hold a candle to this film, and don't get me started on Signs. The films is also much easier to sit through than most of Shymalan's films. It delves extremely well into, what if a comic book superhero actually existed. Also the drama is played out fantastically, and Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson work off eachother fabulously. Also the twist is very well done, and very shocking, rather than the Sixth Sense, which its twist was way too easy to tell what it was.
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Shyamalan displays an absolute control of his film and the type of story he wants to tell, making use of many elaborate long takes and elegant camera movements to enhance the tension of his intriguing plot while keeping us always involved even when the pacing seems to slow down.
"Unbreakable," in my opinion, represents M. Night Shyamalan simultaneously at his best and worst. With an extremely slow burn building up to the finale, the story goes through exciting and boring sequences, making for a very uneven film. Again, this is just my opinion, but I feel as though these actors (who are all great here) are thinking they are in a better film that what the reality upholds. Born with a defect, David (Bruce Willis) slowly begins to discover that he may have super human abilities that have made him stronger and stronger over the course of his life. Unable to die, he begins to turn his life around after meeting someone who believes in him. With a few nice twists at the end of the film, it is definitely worth watching to savour them. Aside from an intriguing premise, some nice cinematography, and a great cast, it is all about the execution, which I think it kind of failed at. I was not sucked into the story like I thought I would be, but the twist paid off well, which is a bizarre contrast. I enjoyed portions of this film, but I disliked it overall. "Unbreakable" is a solid attempt, but sadly it is a slight miss.
What if you were a superhero, but didn't even know it? That is the premise of Unbreakable, and it is quite interesting. Not as interesting as Sixth Sense was though.
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