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Summary: One of the most misunderstood film's in recent memory.
Review: Truly a film to divide audiences. I've spent many an occasion arguing the merits of this beautifully crafted film with it's many detractors.Too slow and self important for some Unbreakable is the rare film that I can watch multiple times. Bruce Willis has never been better and Samuel L. Jackson is a revelation. James Newton Howard's score is not only epic but memorable (are you listening Danny Elfman?). Shyamalan's direction should put present day Spielberg to shame. The Unbreakable DVD is a rarity in the fact that it's deleted scenes are far from useless. Now what I'd like is a feature length audio commentary from Shyamalan and of course a sequel!
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Summary: The movie is unbreakable - but the DVD IS breakable!
Review: This movie had a good story line, but was not worthy of a 2 hour movie. This story line would have made a good Outer Limits type show. Very slow, and the best part is the last 15 minutes. Also, some of the best scenes can only be found in the deleted scenes section!
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Summary: Shorter sometimes is better
Review: The story is good, but not good enough for a movie length film. The story would have been better as an Outer Limits type show. Also, I think the director who narrated the deleted scenes seems to be a little too full of himself. And there were deleted scenes that could have helped this miserably slow movie. If you are an insomniac, then you will love this movie. Otherwise, don't expect too much - although the last 15 minutes are the best of the whole movie.
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Summary: Intense...
Review: Unbreakable is an intense film. Cinematography was much more better than the sixth sense, and the story, even though its not really suspenseful, involves you right in it. It appears as if takes where much more planned, and the story more carefully planned. It really feels as if it were a comic book, and the technical aspects of traducing comic and story to film were kept impecable.
Regarding the special features, the deleted scenes are great, and thats about it.
I believe everything could have been kept in one dvd, butnow a days, studios prefer expanding everything to fit in as many dvds as posible.
The train station multi angle sequence just lets you switch between the storyboard and the real scene... i mean... its cool, but not something you buy a film for. The featurette is ok, and the documentary a little bit better, if you are a comics fan.
But all in all, this dvd is just great because of the movie.
Movie-wise, i give it 5 stars.
Special-features-wise, it gets 2 stars If you are thinking of getting this dvd, i seriously recommend you do. Even if you wont get impressed by the special features, you will not regret it.
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Summary: some people confuse slow withboring
Review: I watched this movie after thoroughly enjoying Sixth Sense and thoroughly disliking Signs. Signs (boring and just plain dumb in too many ways to recount here) was the more recent, so I was inclined to think that Sixth Sense had been a fluke. But given the three movies, I'd have to change my opinion to say that Signs is so far the fluke. Sometimes a movie is enjoyable for the way it's filmed as much as for the tensions it creates among characters. Although the scenes in Unbreakable are shot methodically, they are not over-wrought. The characters develop well, and Bruce Willis is an interesting study whose awareness of his own strengths and limitations develop slowly (not boringly)--a good, simple man who must grapple with consequences of past decisions and discover his potential. The mood hovers perfectly between the fantastic and the grit of everyday life. I have only two gripes (neither of which gives away much): (1) the opening scene in the train ultimately seemed too far out of character, (2) the subtitles at the end allowed the tension between fantasy and reality to be conquered by reality.
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Summary: A film like this should get negative stars!
Review: The film was extremely slow and I kept waiting for the story (that I though existed) to start but half way through I gave up and realized I was out of luck. All I'm going to say is that this film is too tiresome to watch and I wish I could go back in time to retrieve the time I waisted watching it.
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Summary: The under-appreciated younger child.
Review: It's a classic scenario: average younger sibling is overshadowed by older sibling's greatness. No, I'm not talking about the plot to this movie; I'm talking about what literally happened to this film, only because it was born second. M. Night Shyamalan, who some call the next Steven Spielberg, got very lucky when his first big movie, The Sixth Sense, did as well as it did. Chilling, than surprising audiences with it's original plot and breathtaking ending, it became the golden child. Than Unbreakable came, was it bad? No. Was it good? Fairly. Was it as good as The Sixth Sense? NO. And that right there is your answer to why you heard that this movie was a complete waste of time and money. It wasn't AS GOOD.
But so what. Every movie can't be amazing and if we're talking in terms of a normal, moderately interesting and somewhat well done film, than this one passes. The plot is great, the script is fine, most of the acting is good, some is terrific (Samuel L. Jackson is tremendous) there's really nothing seriously wrong with this movie.
But in all fairness, I'll tell you what is. Bruce Willis, praised endlessly for his performance in The Sixth Sense, is sometimes a little too gawky and memorized. His astonishment becomes old fast, but he doesn't seem to realize that because there are very few parts of the movie where he doesn't act stupidly awed. Yes, his acting was sadly on the fine line between good and bad and tipping dangerously close to the later. But, the only other thing that I really thought was wrong was the darkness.
Yes, I think there was a little too much emotional darkness. David Dunn (Willis) and his wife (Robin Wright Penn) are in the middle of a divorce, Samuel L. Jackson's character, Elijah, leads the most tortured, painful and joy-free life imaginable, and the ending involves criminal insanity, which is never pleasant.
All this contrasts interestingly with the family aspect of the movie. The other side of the whole divorce thing and also Dunn's relationship with his young son - played by Spencer Treat Clark.
So, basically, my point is, nothing is perfect. Who says that once a director makes a close to perfect movie, his next one can't have a few more flaws? Forget, The Sixth Sense while watching this movie, it'll make it easier to enjoy because it is enjoyable.
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Summary: Very disappointed,......
Review: Let me start by saying I am a big fan of M. Night Shyamalan, especially since there is a "Philadelphia angle" to all of his movies. Let me also say that I have been collecting comics since I was 7 years old. Combining these two factors, you would expect that I would have nothing but good things to say about this movie. You would be wrong. The characters were well-developed, but the plot was a bit thin. Comics being based on some instinctual memory of past history? Hmm, maybe, but not a very compelling idea. Certainly not enough to base an entire movie on. I appreciate when a director takes his time building the development, but in this movie, Shyamalan takes a bit too much time. When you can begin to see where he's headed an hour beforehand, that's a pretty good indication that some editing should have been employed. A lot of people say this is a comic book movie, but in truth, it has almost nothing to do with comics. Like the rest of his movies, it's actually about the people who just happen to have something strange going on around them. It just seemed to me that the movie couldn't decide if it wanted to commit fully to the comic book idea, or simply focus on the character's development, and fell short of both. Do yourself a favor, skip this movie and go see Signs, an excellent movie from a very good director.
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Summary: Truly Unbreakable!
Review: M. Night Shyamalan is a genius. I say that about only few people. Maybe twenty-five at the most. And twenty-five out of 6 billion is pretty good I am guessing. M. Night Syamalan is one of the best storytellers of our century. He writes, directs, and most of the time produces his movies. Though only three of his movies have made it big, he should deserve more credit. I know a lot of people thought this movie was bad. But it deffinately isn't bad at all. It does get slow at some parts, but that is mainly why people didn't like it. But if you are into M. Shyamalan's films you will love this no matter what. This is a compelling story about David (Bruce Willis) who is the only survivor of a massive train wreck and who is un-harmed. He meets Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson) who has a disease that makes his bones very weak and they break very easily. They are on both ends of the spectrum. Elijah suggests that comic books are a form of history and that David may be a sort of "missing link" to this. I won't tell more as of fear of spoiling it. But M. Night Shyamalan's work is awesome. Everybody in the cast does an awesome job. And the score! By James Newton Howard, who also did The Sixth Sense, is just amazing. I love every bit of it. Who would have known that this Indian kid from nowhere could have such wonderful ideas and so diverse too! From a kid seeing dead people, to a comic book superhero, to crop circles and aliens! THis is an awesome movie. Give it a chance.
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Summary: Shatters under scrutiny
Review: One of my friends loved this movie, another completely hated it. I remember being somewhere in the middle after seeing it in the theater. The silliness of the movie's main conceit didn't bother me-after all, the movie is about comic books. What bothered me the second time around is that it really isn't a very good movie. Is Bruce Willis supposed to be the same ghost that he played in The Sixth Sense? Is every movie that Shamalan makes going to be about bland people in a bland world? The brightest thing in the entire movie is a Tropicana orange juice carton. I think rather than watching another Shamalan movie (I'm sure Mel Gibson's character in Signs will be every bit as lifeless as the protaganists in Shamalan's other two movies) I'll check out some Hitchcock, who at least knew how to meld humor and energy with tension and suspense.
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