Extremely disappointing.

Rating: 4/10 (12 February 2001)

After all the success "The Sixth Sense" got, director M. Night Shyamalan's started to make another film, also written and directed by himself, just like his fantastic previous film, and just to make things better, the film even had Bruce Willis in it's cast.
Just like in sequels, people always expect something bigger and better. Since most people really enjoyed The Sixth Sense, now they were positive about Unbreakable: "It'll be the best of the year 2000!". Well, I was one of those poor people who thought that, and I was amazingly disappointed.
The movie is unbelievably bad, and I'm not exaggerating here. Although the performances by Willis and Jackson were good, the script is just too poor. The subject isn't that bad, about the 'unbreakable' man and all; If it would have been written in a different story, it could have been good.
The way this movie develops the story of the 'unbreakable' man and the 'easily breakable' one and how he finds out about his powers and what he can do with them is good. Yes, it's thrilling. The only (but huge) problem is that the whole movie you expect something to happen, and nothing actually happens. You don't necessarily need to expect a twist at the end, like the one in "The Sixth Sense", but you were waiting to see something actually happening. And what happens? Nothing. Willis rescues a family, in a short scene where he kills a guy, and then nothing. Yes, nothing. Then he goes to Samuel L. Jackson's party, and there Elijah (Jackson) confesses that he killed about 500 people just to find the 'unbreakable' man, and he did. And what's next? Again, nothing. The movie ends.
Through the movie you can also see several dialogues about Jackson's comic books, and they are totally pointless, so, then again, when you ask yourself "What was it with the comic books?", you can use the word Nothing.
The movie has the same atmosphere as "The Sixth Sense", and kind of the same style, you can clearly notice it's the same director. But, as I've said, the script is very poor, which makes the movie awful.
I'll be generous and rate it with a 4 out of 10.