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Summary: Unbreakable? More like UnTAKEable
Review: Yeah,Untakeable, or at least unwatchable. I guess they incorporated the whole "Comic book" theme into the storyline in an attempt to intensify the movie's (already flipantly proportioned) surreality. Whatever their intention, the writers fudged it up big time! The result is Cheesey enough to feed a Rathouse. I saw this piece of Trash in the movie theater (yes I dropped $8 on it). I can remember the entire audience erupting into laughter during the scene when Bruce Willis's 9 year old son holds his parents at gunpoint, insisting through fake tears, over unessecarily clamorous music, that he has to shoot his dad to prove to everyone that he really is "Unbreakable". Again... Whatever the intended effect was... IT FAILED Of the pacing in this movie, I say it dragged where it should have skimmed and skimmed where it should have accentuated. You can just sense the carelessness in editing. The ending... My god! Almost as laughable as the pistol packing third grader. Movies are supposed to "end" as in "Conclude", as in wrap everything up efficiently as it pertains to the rest of the story. Unbreakable just kind of stopped. Its like they ran out of film, or something and had to end it in a flash. So, there you have it. Another movie that never should have seen the big screen. A poorly paced, pitifully written bit of work with a shotgun ending. Don't let your curioisity get the better of you. This one is bound to disappoint.
---------Paully Markey
PS) It made number 19 on my list of worst films ever
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Summary: How awful was this movie?
Review: Let me count the ways! M. Night 'Shamalamadingdong' made this cute little story and dragged it out into an exasperating 90 minutes. This would've made a decent Twilight Zone episode, but because there was no real substance to the story, the director just slowed down the pacing. Either we're to believe that all of the lead characters are stoned or they all speak that slowly and methodically because they are mentally handicapped.
Why was Bruce Willis' character getting divorced? Why did he try to pick up the girl on the train if he supposedly still loves his soon to be ex-wife? Why on earth would a parent just stand around while a child points a loaded gun at them? Hardly realistic.
And don't get me started on the surprise ending! It's very easy to make a surprise ending if you just pick it out thin air. There was nothing at all in the story that would even lead you to suspect the ending was possible. Unlike his brilliant Sixth Sense which plays well multiple times because it was true to itself.
This movie was horrible and someone owes me 90 minutes of my life back!
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Summary: Boring. To slow paced. Lame effects. Poor Plot.
Review: What is the big deal with M. Night Shyamalan? He can't write, can barely direct, and his movies are uninspiring bores. About 20% of this movie was tolerable. I thought I was going to wear out the FF button on my DVD remote! IF you want mystery, adventure, or action, you'd find more watching paint dry. Although paint drying would probably hold your interest longer than any part of this movie.
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Summary: Shyamalan continues his occult journey
Review: In the summer of 1999, Disney released a movie written and directed by a little know director named M. Night Shyamalan. Studio executives hoped that the movie, a supernatural thriller, would perform well and make a profit. To their surprise and delight, it became a smash hit all around the world. The movie was The Sixth Sense. As you most likely know, it was about a child psychologist [Bruce Willis] who tried to help a young boy [Haley Joel Osment] who claimed to see dead people. In his newest movie, Unbreakable, Mr. Shyamalan again returns to the occult with a spooky tale about a man who is a super hero and doesn't know it. Bruce Willis again stars. This time he is David Dunn, a mild-mannered, frequently depressed guy who works as a security guard in Philadelphia. As the movie opens, he is returning home on a train. He gets an odd feeling, and the next thing he knows, there is a terrible wreck. He is the only passenger who survives. His wife and son are ecstatic. Not only he is alive, he has escaped without a scratch. The fact remains that David and his wife, Audrey [Robin Wright Penn], are planning to divorce. The train trip was for a job interview in New York City. Though estranged from Audrey, David is exceptionally close to his son, Joseph [Spencer Treat Clark]. The impending separation is tearing everyone apart. Leaving a memorial service for the victims, David finds a note engraved with the words "Limited Edition". Inside, someone has written, "How many times in your life have you been sick?" He traces the note to a chic art gallery that specializes in comic book art. The note was written by the owner, Elijah [Samuel L. Jackson], a strange and slightly ominous man who suffers from a genetic disease that causes his bones to be brittle and to break easily. It is he who thinks that David is more than he appears to be. Elihah tells him he may be someone with special powers, someone who can tap into the forces of good in order to fight evil. Naturally, David thinks Elijah is a nut case. He even orders Joseph, who as accompanied him, not to drink the water Elijah has given him. Yet he also senses something in what Elijah has said. Soon, odd things start to happen, and David finally realizes that the answer to Elijah's question is that he has never been sick a day in his life. But what does this fact, as well as recent events, mean? And what is Elijah's interest in it? There are many similarities here to The Sixth Sense, including a surprise ending. For several reasons, Unbreakable doesn't work quite as well. It has many interesting elements, including lots of references to comic book heroes. There is a theme involving water that is excellent. The photography and the set decoration are impeccable. The cast is great. But Unbreakable is even more dark and brooding than The Sixth Sense, its pace is slower, and its ending is even more far fetched. As a result, many viewers will find it less enjoyable. I don't think this is all Shyamalan's fault. When your last picture was a boxoffice phenomenon, it truly is a tough act to follow. I was intrigued to discover that the director's next project, Signs, is about a farm couple who finds mysterious crop circles in their fields. The supernatural theme continues. Wouldn't it be great if Shyamalan turned out to be the next Alfred Hitchcock by devoting himself to just one genre or theme? I thought of this while watching Unbreakable because, after all, even movies by The Master of Suspense varied greatly in success, both artistically and commercially. It was the body of work by Hitchcock that was important, and I hope the same proves true of Mt. Shyamalan.
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Summary: In ten years this film will be seen as a masterpiece
Review: Unbreakable is a revelation in commercial filmmaking. The director, M.Night Shyamalan aimed to combine art house flamboyance with mainstream sensibilities, and as a result has made one of the most misunderstood and underrated films of the last decade. The film possesses a strict style. It is slowly paced, acted with a subdued ambiguity and shot in a cold and obstinate manor. Kubrick's visual legacy lives on in every frame of this film. I love the fact that most critic's disregarded it as a pretentious experiment. Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Lost Weekend were poorly reviewed for the same reason upon release but are now considered masterpieces. Unbreakable will begin to be realised for what it truly is; a complex, multi-faceted allegory. It poses one of the hardest questions we could ever ask ourselves: 'what was I put on this earth to do?' For ninety-eight minutes Bruce Willis is on a voyage like Travis Bickle, searching for his identity, wanting to make a change in his life and the world that surrounds him. Bruce Willis is perfectly cast as David Dunn, a man whose potential has not yet been realised. Willis may continue to make average action films but every now and again he reminds us all of his acting talents. Obviously this performance was TOO good for the Academy. Robin Wright Penn and Sam Jackson excel in their parts, but ultimately this is Willis's show. Unbreakable continues to be a rewarding cinematic experience. I respect the director for his intelligence but also his courage to make an atypical Hollywood movie that holds up the mirror to our souls and begs us to ask the same question. The DVD itself is a combination of disappoinments and surprises. The picture and sound quality is exceptional, putting other film transfers (i.e. Shawshank and The Godfather) to shame. The cinematography and musical score are equally sublime and it is fitting that this DVD does its best to showcase that. ...This featurette reveals new aspects of the film that I never noticed before. It entertained and informed me, which really makes this an excellent piece of material to watch. The "Comic Book and Superheroes Documentary" is flat out brilliant. We learn about the conventions of villains, heroes and the themes in comic books. It illuminates Unbreakable to the point where you watch the film in an entirely new perspective. Then you have the seven deleted scenes. The director introduces each one and explains why they were removed from the final cut. The quality of both the scenes and introductions are first-rate, and reveals just how good a filmmaker Shyamalan is. Then there is "An Excerpt From a Childhood Film of M. Night Shyamalan" It is so charming to see a director at the age of ten (or whatever) making his own short film. It of course is terrible but is now all the more significant considering where that young boy is today. The "Train Station Sequence with Multi-Angle Feature & Sound Mix" is kinda cool. We have seen it with the Seven and Fight Club DVDs. It reveals the effect sound has on images, and also the opportunity to see the scene drawn out in storyboards shows just how professional Hollywood can be! Ultimately though what is lacking is a filmmakers' commentary. Like Spielberg, Shyamalan does not like commentating on his films which is fair enough, but surely this did not stop the other cast and crew members from commenting on the production. Commentaries are the most valued and significant extras any DVD can offer, and it really is a shame not to find at least one on this "Special Edition" DVD. Quite frankly I would have preferred a commentary to the gorgeous packaging and 2 Collectable Alex Ross Illustrations.
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Summary: This could have been a great movie...
Review: ...But it wasn't. I didn't hate it. I didn't like it either. Excellent concept, however they took forever to tell the story, and by the time they got to the point...it was shortly over. I found myself screaming at the screen, "get on with it!" I won't say boring, because it did hold my attention, obviously I didn't turn it off. I really wanted to find out what was going on. It was tedious. It had no punch to it. No action. No excitement. It was too cerebral, and it shouldn't have been. If you are going to make a movie about a man who's really a "superhero" for Pete's sake put some activity in it! Even the one big so-called "action" scene was dull. I did think the big secret ending was quite a shock and made me even more disspointed that whoever made this movie had no idea how to make a movie. What a brilliant ending to such a dud of a movie. I wish someone would remake it already, because it has lots of potential. Maybe someone with talent...like Quentin Tarantino, the genius! And I don't like Bruce Willis trying to be sensitive. I didn't like it in 6th Sense, and I didn't like it in this. He can't pull it off. There's something so insincere and smirky about Bruce Willis trying to be sensitive. Please God, don't ever let this man play a sensitive character again! Just let him keep blowing stuff up! Samuel L. Jackson was wonderful tho. Then again, when isn't he? And the little boy, Spencer Treat Clark...he's a gem. I've seen in before and the kid's a pleasure to watch.
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Summary: Better than Sixth Sense - dark, spooky and chilling.
Review: M.Night Shyamalen had a difficult job on his hands in making a movie to follow up the tremendously successful Sixth Sense, but with Unbreakable, I feel he actually exceeds all expectations by bettering Sixth Sense. We are introduced to David Dunn (Bruce Willis), a man who, remarkably, is the only survivor of an horrific train crash. In fact, he doesn't have a single injury to show for it. One man who happens to notice this is Elijah Price (Samuel L Jackson), an obscure comic book expert who has a bizarre theory on why Willis survived. Price was born with a fragile bone structure, and spent a tortured childhood knowing that even the smallest fall could break any number of bones in his body. Dunn, on the other hand, was the opposite. Neither he nor his wife Audrey (Robin Wright) could ever remember a time when he had taken time off work through illness. Price believes that the two of them are linked, at different ends of a curve. The film follows Dunn as he struggles to come to grips with who he is, and what he is capable of. It is a fascinating story with a great deal of depth to it, and it is extremely atmospheric, at times even spooky. The performances are excellent; Willis proved in Sixth Sense that he has some versatiliy, and he bettered that performance here with an excellently understated portrayal of Dunn. There was also a great chemistry between him and Samuel L Jackson, who was intense, and suprisingly chilling as Price. A geuninely thought-provoking and unusual film, Unbreakable is utterly riveting, and one of the best films of the last fifteen months - well worth buying.
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Summary: So Much Better Than the Sixth Sense
Review: Unbreakable has so much more meaning behind it than the Sixth Sense. The main character in this film, David Dunn, played be Bruce Willis, is a security guard. He has not fully accepted his role, waking up every morning with sadness. But he goes back to work everyday, doing what society expects him to do. Society expects him to be just that...a security guard. They stunt his full potential. He lives a purposeless life until he meets Elijah Price, played by Samuel L. Jackson. It is through Dunn's meetings with Price that he learns what he truly is. Beautifully shot with strong visual images, Unbreakable makes you question yourself. It makes you want to explore your own potential, and purpose. I really don't want to reveal the plot. But keep in mind the strong metaphorical values of the movie. I hope M. Night makes a sequel.
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Summary: hum? I know humans as comic book characters.....
Review: I don't know what Night was thinking with the idea for this movie, prehaps someone should define reality to him..... But if you can get over the ridiculous premise of this film, then it is worth watching if you want to forgo reality for awhile.
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Summary: Not as good as 'Sixth Sense'
Review: Whilst 'The Sixth Sense' was a brilliantly made movie that revolutionised the ghost genre and took it into the new millenium, 'Unbreakable' is a much more ordinary piece. It concerns an apparently ordinary man (Willis) who is not just the sole survivor of a train wreck but doesn't have a scratch on him. Then along comes a vender of comic books (Jackson) with a disease which causes him to have incredibly weak bones who informs Willis that he is a modern day superhero. The movie is an odd mixture of brilliance and mediocrity with an intriguing yet still obvious story. Once again Shyamalan draws exceptional performances from the cast, especially Willis who all of a sudden seems to have become a very good actor indeed. Jackson is uniformly excellent, as is Pen Wright and although the kid is certainly no Haley Joel Osmont, he is definitely a cut above most child actors. It succeeds on a number of levels as once again Shyamalan proves that he is the master of ghostly suspense, with the few shocks included here deriving mostly from clever camera work along with stunning photography. What is also impressive is the fact that the movie transcends its limitations so that it never seems ridiculous or descends into camp. Moreover, it is a decidedly adult movie that should be applauded on many levels. However, this cannot account for the fact that when the characters aren't stuck in apparently inescapable situations or there's nothing happening, it can get a little dull. Whilst being dull is not necessarily a crime there is a lot of filler here that just wasn't needed. Plus, the parts that needed to be expanded upon such as Willis's relationship with his wife, weren't so. This half effort to inject some humanity into the film consequently falls flat on its face. Yet it is the ending that will make most viewers scratch their heads. It is not only a lame twist but it also seems that Shymalan thinks that a sudden twist is enough to end a movie. Thus abrupt and frankly unsatisfactory ending more than anything else that fails 'Unbreakable'. In addition, it's nothing compared to 'The Sixth Sense'.
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