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Summary: not for everybody
Review: this flick is not for everybody. i'd say it's for people who don't need to see car chases, explosions, not stop fight scenes and the like. THIS AIN'T X-MEN. if you haven't seen it, know that the film can be considered slow. but here's the thing. SLOW IS NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING. i personally enjoyed the pace of the film and never once became bored or preoccupied. people into film will be able to apprecite the cinematography, (hope i spelled that right) the different camera angles, (many scenes are filmed entirely as reflections in glass) Shayamalan's creative use of color (as far as his characters clothing is concerned) and so on. basically i'd say don't watch the film thinking about how it differs from the usual big budget hollywood . watch the film and appreciate what it is.
then again if you are into movies like 'gone in sixty seconds' you should probly skip 'unbreakable' altogether.
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Summary: Intriguing...strange...
Review: It's intriguing to know that whilst there are people who could qualify as a member of the new X-Men due to their body characteristics, there are also those who are like the exact opposite. & this is where & how the story started. One man continually searching his anti-thesis. For what? I really could not tell but maybe simply for the satisfaction of knowing that his belief, derived from comic books, is correct afterall. What I cannot fathom though is how a paraplegic can pull off all those accidents when he obviously cannot even help himself. Hhhmmm...strange, really strange.
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Summary: Not bad, just depressing! Tired of depressing movies!
Review: It would have been such a great idea! But it was made into a dark and forboding movie. I can tell how much I like a movie by how many times I pause it to get a drink, rummage the kitchen, annoy my husband. I didn't even bother to hit the pause with this movie. It was very good, but I don't like the way Bruce Willis "mumbles" his way through the entire movie! I kept having to turn the volume up and down. I thought the entire movie lagged. Most of the movie is spent by Bruce trying to figure out if he is a super-hero by "talking to various people" I did not want talk, I wanted "ACTION"..... There was some action in the end, but I found it distasteful, degrading, and depressing. I gave it three stars because I kept awake during it, and did not turn it off in the middle. Please, if you must see this movie, rent it, and don't bother buying it.
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Summary: An honest, but disappointing, effort
Review: M. Night Shyamalan has a great ability to take a perfectly normal situation, and add just a touch of the unexplainable, to make an interesting story.This is as much the case with "Unbreakable" as with his previous success, "The Sixth Sense". Unfortunately, where "Sixth Sense" succeeded with its ghostly mysticism, "Unbreakable" seems comparably infantile with its exploration of a man who discovers he might be a "superhero". Bruce Willis does very well as a man coming to terms with his unique situation. Samuel Jackson is appropriately aloof and dramatically offbeat. But the premise ultimately dooms the picture; modern audiences are more willing to suspend disbelief to accept the existence of ghosts and mediums than they are to accept the existence of superheroes.
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Summary: Believable but a little repetitive
Review: This movie was good because of one good reason: It did not try to be more than it was. It was the most realistic unrealistic movie I have seen. Bruce Willis was found to have semi-super strength and ESP type powers. But this didn't mean he could life cars and buildings or control peoples minds. It just meant he could lift more weight than would be expected of him, he could take a beating and be fine and would get visions of peoples thoughts if he touched them. This movie did not try to create a hero who would be unbelievable in the real world. After watching this movie people could actually believe that people like Bryce Willis existed. The only flaw of this movie is the director. The day before I watched this I watched "The Sixth Sense". The same director did both of them and even if you didn't know that you could see lots of similarities. The same types of fade outs are used and the ending was shocking but in a sixth sense -esque way. Over all it is an enjoyable cinematic experience.
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Summary: Good Intentions -- Bad Execution
Review: I think this is a great example of a director missing the boat. The director obviously looked at his success with 6TH SENSE and thought "Ah, people really liked the way I weighed it down with all that emotional claptrap. So, in my next movie, I will also weigh down a fairly cool idea with even more heavy handed emotional belly-button gazing. People will LOVE it." Ah, well, no. People didn't love it. Actually, people liked 6TH SENSE's scares and the twist ending. And while I appreciate the seriousness with which he approaches this superhero tale, he's made a boring art film out of a fairly interesting idea.
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Summary: We're looking up at the bottom of the barrel.
Review: Terrible, terrible terrible. What else can one say - Willis is wooden, Jackson is so preposterous it's cringeworthy. The film has no redeeming features, it trundles along at a speed that a slug would be scornful of. The plot I found to be ridiculous - no matter how much I suspended my disbelief. My advice would be to keep your money and start a stamp collection - it would definately be more interesting.
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Summary: Another great movie from the M. Night Shyamalan
Review: But, while this movie is not another "Sixth Sense", it does have the same tension that you felt throughout. It's a great story about good vs. evil with the symbolism and imagery that now seem to be the hallmark of a Shyamalan movie. Bruce Willis expertly shows his characters' discomfort of the knowledge he has on his special 'situation'. If you love twists and turns, surprises and suspense, you'll love this one.
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Summary: AN ELEVATION OF FORM OVER SUBSTANCE...
Review: The movie starts off promisingly enough. Philadephian David Dunn, tepidly played by Bruce Willis, is travelling on a train, when it suddenly derails. All aboard are killed, except for Dunn, who emerges from the wreck unscathed. Dunn, a working class joe, is a security guard, who is married and has a son. His marriage is on the rocks, he walks through the movie like a zombie, and he is unintelligent enough to be unaware that he has never been sick a day in his life nor ever injured. His is a marginal existence. Enter Elijah Wood, wonderfully played with electrifying intensity by Samuel L. Jackson. Wood is a man, who suffers from a genetic illness that causes his bones to be so brittle that they shatter easily, like glass. Highly intelligent, wealthy, and single, he is the antithesis of David Dunn, the man for whom he has been searching, as long as he can remember. Why? Well for that you will have to watch the film, which is really an allegory for a comic book interpretation of good and evil. The film, however, will whet the viewer's appetite, but it will not satisfy, as it gives the viewer only a taste of what the film might have been, rather than what, ultimately, it is, a film that caves under its own artifice. Though the film has its moments, they are not enough to make this the great film it could have been.
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Summary: Definitely A Must-See Movie!!
Review: Even though the trailers for this movie were somewhat vague, I was intrigued enough to want to see it (Bruce Willis being in it was also a big plus for me!) Knowing the plot of the movie in no way prepared me for the actual storyline. Though some parts of it were a bit slow, I was blown away nonetheless. The relationship between Willis' character and his son's was realistic in the way that the director portrayed the desperation with which the son clings to his father(Willis). Willis and his wife (Robin Wright Penn) bring their character's failing marriage to life. You feel the awkwardness that surrounds them. Samuel L. Jackson plays his character with all the seriousness and flair in which he is famous for. The idea that there are real superheroes and villians living amongst us isn't as farfetched as it sounds (especially not after Jackson explains this theory to Willis!) The way Willis' character discovers and uses his newfound super-hero's gift is a heart-racing/heart-stopping scene; One of the best scenes in the movie! What I found to be completely mind-blowing was the ending, which ties everything together and gives the explanation for the rest of the story. It was a perfect ending!! This is definitely a MUST-SEE movie!!
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