Uninteresting!

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2001)

Here I go thinking the last 2-3 years have been one of the poorest for Hollywood ever, and wonder just how stupid contemporary movies can get, then I watch 'Unbreakable' and am amazed that they can get even stupider! I was one of the few people on Earth who didn't go ga-ga over 'The Sixth Sense'. That movie was way to slow, had too many plot holes, and a "twist" ending you could see a mile off. 'Unbreakable' does this all over again, but even more boringly, and like 'The Sixth Sense' is ultimately empty.

The thing that particularly irritates me about Shyamalan's movies is that they pander to audiences who are sick and tired of flashy, FX -filled, action movies with super fast cutting and nothing much to say. I'm actually one of those people! But just by slowing the pace to a stand still and throwing out the MTV-isms isn't enough, unless you replace them with believable characters and dialogue or some kind of substance or INTELLIGENCE. I can sit through sloooooow art house science fiction movies like Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' because it's WORTH IT. 'Unbreakable' simply isn't.
This movie gives a lot of lip service to comic books but it is NOWHERE near as challenging and original as the best works of writers like Alan Moore or Warren Ellis. Read their comics, don't waste your time with this.