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Summary: Good story, characters - needed more to relate to
Review: I liked this movie, but I didn't love it. It begs the comparison with Sixth Sense, given that it's the director's follow-up to it, and the one thing missing from Unbreakable was the humanity of the characters. If they were more believable and more human, I would've been drawn deeper into this film.
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Summary: The Hero in the age of mediocrity
Review: I have heard people call this one of Shyamalan's weakest films. However I've got to disagree- if anything I found this to be among his most powerful. You've just got to recognize the mythic underpinnings. It all hinges on the fact that when profound evil manifests, the universe creates equally powerful good to even the balance and put things right. The universe crystallizes out a hero. Nor may a hero ignore his reason for being: he cannot deny the call.But what if the hero finds himself in a mediocre age? What if a born hero is constantly taught that he is nothing special? What if society conspires to let his abilities go to waste? Indeed, what if his, or her, society denies the very possibility of the existence of a true hero? It would make no difference. Heroes come from a higher place for a higher purpose. They are the tools that the universe uses to put things right. They will find a way to awake to their true calling no matter what. The soul of a hero cannot be diluted by a weak and soulless society. Willis is perfect as the ordinary man that slowly comes to realize that he is far from ordinary. The way that he slowly realizes that the only limitations on him are those imposed by his own doubts is most believable. Jackson's performance is equally believable as the dark mirror to Willis. As for the special features, the mini-documentary on comic books and their meaning is quite good. I especially enjoyed actually seeing Frank Millar and Alex Ross talk about their motivations. And as most of the creators point out, the motivations behind the best comics are archetypical and mythological. They are the popular breakout of the power of myth in an otherwise profane and meaningless age.
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Summary: Tolerable.
Review: 'Unbreakable' is a tolerable film starring Bruce Willis. It is about a football stadium security guard who realizes he is not capable of being injured or hurt. The idea is a little ludicrous, but one should not expect a realistic film.
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Summary: UNWATCHABLE!!!
Review: I turned on UNBREAKABLE on tv last night to see what the big deal was about after I saw some commercial hyping a new M. Night Shyamalan movie THE VILLAGE with a promise of a trailer during UNBREAKABLE. I never got to made it to the THE VILLAGE trailer because UNBREAKABLE was unwatchable! First of all, most train wrecks have survivors--lots of them--so one guy--in this case, Bruce Willis, of course--surviving a train wreck isn't really all that special. (Now if this had been a movie about the sole survivor of a plane crash, THAT might have been interesting!) Then the mystical stuff about the other guy--Samuel L. Jackson--his spiritual doppleganger who's always getting hurt is the same old psychic baloney from SIXTH SENSE, and by the time I got to Willis realizing that he's--of course--unbreakable--even a 1960s comic book fan like me had had enough. Oh, and UNBREAKABLE is slow, has the old "mysterious letter from nowhere" scene, and is continuing proof that Hollywood has run out of ideas. And after you've seen as many movies as I have, the best title for this one isn't UNBREAKABLE, it's UNWATCHABLE!!! Chari Krishnan RESEARCHKING
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Summary: Twisted and dark, just the way I like it served.
Review: There is no way to mark Unbreakable with a specific name of a kind a movie (Sorry about my wording I just woke up.)! Let me explain...In some ways you could call it a thriller, in some ways you could call it a mystery, you could also call it a sci-fi, but theres no way to specify the kind of movie it is. I first saw this on TV and I thought it was great...still do. Anyone who's into Signs or The Sixth Sense should definitely see this movie. Also go see "The Village" July 30, 2004 and check how GREAT that will be it looks really good. But thats basically all I can say about Unbreakable, its to hard to explain how great of a movie it is. You'll just have to see it for yourself! Over and out.
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Summary: Spooky
Review: There's only one thing I would've changed about the movie though. The fact that Bruce Willis acting was a little over done in this one. He was still good though. Overall, I liked the movie, and the plot of having kind of super powers a person isn't quite willing to accept yet. David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is just a regular man. With very few words, he can express how he's feeling. But when he emerges from a deadly train crash without a scratch on him, he begins to wonder what's going on. He soon realizes that he's never had a sick day in his whole life going to back to the fact that there was a car accident with him in it where he also came out without a scratch. It seems David can't be hurt, or injured in anyway besides one acception that he can't go near water without practically drowning. When a strange, yet very delicate, comic collector (Samuel L. Jackson) is taking an interest on David as more and more strange things begin to happen as he finds out, he can know about other people, and their sins in the past by just a simple bump on the shoulder. When a murder becomes obvious on the mind of a worker in the train station, he sets out deciding to use his powers I still give it four stars. the acting was a little off, but still four stars. M. Night Shyamalan delivers with another success. I think the best acting was done by Samuel L. Jackson who was the weird comic collector who was obsessed with David's supernatural powers. I liked it, and own it because anything as good and suspenseful as Unbreakable is definetely worth owning. Don't think twice about it either. What will Shyamalan think of next?
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Summary: Below par work from a promising director.
Review: I sat down in front of my television the summer this movie came out on DVD and proceeded to subject myself to one of the worst movies I have ever seen, Unbreakable. I watched Shyamalan's previous film (The Sixth Sense) and found that to be a one-time only movie... tried watching it a second time and it just wasn't able to keep me interested... this movie followed the same kind of guidelines... but watching it the first time seemed like a chore this time around. The movie was paced so as to be compared to watching snails race. And the "plot twist" at the end when you find out who the villian is... didn't affect me at all. In fact, I was appalled at the simple and uneventful ending of this movie. Long story made short: If you liked The Sixth Sense... you'll more than likely get into this movie. If you liked Signs (which I did... love that movie and believe Signs to be Shyamalan's crowning achievement thus far) it is a 50/50. I regret wasting the money on the rental of this movie though so... that's my 2 cents on this horrid movie.
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Summary: Uneven But Unique
Review: After the overrated yet average "The Sixth Sense", Shyamalan presented another intriguing and different piece of cinema with this peculiar movie that gives a new perspective into superheroes` conventions. Bruce Willis returns for the role of the quiet, laid-back lead and shares the screen with Samuel L. Jackson`s enigmatic presence. Like the "Sixth Sense", "Unbreakable" also tells a mysterious slow paced story where and adult man has deep connections with a kid, but this time the plot is more interesting and original. The direction is terrific and certainly helps to create an absorbing and gripping mood and atmosphere, even if some scenes are too slow and unengaging. The score is adequate as well, as is the convincing and subtle acting. However, some energy wouldn`t hurt this movie, since it has few dynamic scenes given the overall slow rythm. And the ending is a bit anti-climatic and disappointing too, even if it provides a strange surprise. Still, for the most part "Unbreakable" works pretty well and suceeds as a very well-crafted and unusual story worth discovering. It`s also refreshing to watch a superhero that`s so distant from most of the cliches that are common within the genre. Not a classic, just a good effort.
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Summary: Not for the impatient
Review: OK, the plot's been laid out in hundreds of other reviews so I'll skip the rehash. What I'd like to point out are the aspects of the film that I found especially, well, special. First off, David's son was moved by pride in his dad and frustration that he'll never be like him. Poor kid. Second, I was left wondering how they'll keep the secret from Mom if Dad will be diasppearing every night to go beat up bad guys, when she's so apalled by violence of any kind. Third, IS David bulletproof? Probably, given his resistance to impact and lacerations, even from razor-sharp metal and broken glass. But we never know, and how could be possibly take the chance of finding out? I hear this was supposed to have been expanded into a trilogy. One may hope.
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Summary: Interesting. Riveting. Chilling.
Review: Capsule summary: Bruce Willis plays an ordinary man who does security work. After a devastating train accident somehow leaves him miraculously untouched, he is contacted by a mysterious man who tells him he may not be ordinary at all, but so extraordinary that he can no longer lead an ordinary life. The truth is even stranger, and more frightening, than it seems at first. Review (with spoilers): It is a rare thing to come across anything NEW in either the thriller OR superhero genres. This combination of both manages to do so for both. We start with a young boy, Elijah Price who is born with a terrible medical curse: his bones are so brittle that they can break under any significant strain. To motivate him to at least try to make as much use of his body as he can, his mother buys him comic books which he likes and places them on the playground across the street; Elijah accepts the challenge, and the comic-book world within... ... Years later, a devastating train accident occurs, leaving security worker David Dunn (Bruce Willis) untouched though nearly everyone else is killed. Elijah, who now runs a collectibles store focused around comic memorabilia, contacts David. It seems that Elijah, because of his incredible fragility (for which the neighborhood children have nicknamed him "Mr. Glass"), formed a theory that the bell-curve distribution of human traits demanded that there be someone on the "opposite end" from him: someone virtually unbreakable, superhuman. Elijah (played as an adult by Samuel L. Jackson) is clearly somewhat nuts, yet there is a wierd and compelling power about him, and about the faith he has that there is a higher power motivating these events. David does not accept this theory at once, but eventually other odd coincidences force him to at least test this nutcase's ideas... and the test results are everything that Elijah expects, stunning even David and his son. In the end, David accepts that there is, in fact, some part of him driven to seek out and oppose true evildoers -- those who kill with pleasure and so on -- and in a dramatic sequence fights his first battle as a vigilante. Ironically, even though he does NOT go looking for some funny costume and tights, the outfit he wears works *AS* a superhero costume, even supplying him with an appropriate superheroic name: "Security". BIG SPOILER WARNING, DO NOT READ ANY FARTHER IF YOU WANT ANY CHANCE TO WATCH THE REMAINDER OF THE FILM UNKNOWING Some Extra Space But the true shocker comes at the end, when we discover that, in order to FIND his superhero, Elijah has been CAUSING multiple disasters, winnowing through countless scenes of destruction to find the one unbreakable man or woman. The man we thought was playing "Professor X" to David's X-man life is, in fact, more akin to the Joker looking for his Batman. "Mr. Glass" could not be a superhero, so obviously he would have to be the villain -- and FIND a hero to oppose him. Will David ever play Hero again? Despite this shock, we don't know. I would guess... yes. The ironic fact is that Mr. Glass *WAS* telling the truth. There IS a special power in David, one specifically there for finding those of true evil intent, and he truly does have a strong drive to act on it. But what a dark and sinister origin to have....
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