What did you expect?

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2004)

It's not the first time a movie by M. Night Shatamalan (sp?) has a trailer that doesn't reflect exactly the movie.
Where can you see in the Unbreakable trailer that this is a movie about comic books? I learned it in the first minute of the movie, but I wasn't aware before that, even seeing the trailers.
Going into a movie from this directory, you HAVE to think "there will be a twist", but you are just plain stupid if you are trying to guess it before the end, you want to spoil your experience, don't you?
I never saw it coming, but the worst part is, I didn't even notice that we were *WARNING SPOILERS* in actual time when she got on the road... it took me a minute... didn't had the same effect on me as the other twists in the other Shatamalan movies, but after thinking about the whole movie, it was a pretty good ending, you now know you have to watch it again to see all the clues you were stupid enough not to notice.
I must admit that when I saw the feast scene, I said to myself "Funny, this could be in modern time, they don't look too old fashioned", but it never clicked in my head that this was in modern time.
Plus, the more I read comments (good ones, not negative ones, I can understand why some people felt cheated due to the trailer, but nevertheless, it doesn't make the movie BAD), I now think the best one is the one that notices that the camera from the wood where people are scared, it looks exactly like if they were scared of us, watching them, through the screen...
I won't say it's M. Night Shatamalan's best, but I'm trully a fan of his movies, and I can't wait for more. This is the type of movie that could get oscar nominations, the cinematography is quite amazing, the costumes and scenes makes you feel truly in 1897, and well, Adrian Body's performance is worthy of an best supporting actor nomination for sure... I truly hope this guy will get a big shot at leading roles, he diserves it, even if he's not Brad Pitt nor Tom Cruise.
So what can you say? You can love it, or hate it.. myself, I'm not sure.. I can't say if I liked it or not, but one thing for sure, I didn't dislike it... but there are still elements of that movie that I don't get, as why they have decided that the color red would be banned, and yellow would be a safe color, plus, I have problems to believe that teenagers wouldn't venture in those woods.. we're all idiots at this age...
Oh well, time will tell me if I loved it or not, but sure thing is, i wasn't disappointed...