Unwatchable

Rating: 2/10 (11 November 2006)

The interesting thing is that I watched this without knowing it was by M. Night, and the same goes for The Sixth Sense. I never could put my finger on just what bothered me about the latter, but now I know. Both of these have a lot in common with The Village, which I thought should be marvelous, but after it finished, I felt cheated.
I like Bruce and Sam can do no wrong in my book, but neither of them could save this. The whole production seemed to be deliberately aimed at irritating the viewers. Accordingly, I am just dumbfounded by the huge number of rave reviews here. Why can't these people detect a bad film when they see one? Not to say it couldn't have been good. The idea was original, just really badly executed, IMO. Just as The Village could have been good. Really, Sixth Sense wasn't that bad, so maybe M. Shyamalan should have stopped after that one and just been a one-hit-wonder. Maybe he should go back to Bollywood; they're desperately in need of good ideas. How they can just keep stamping out the exact same kind of movie over and over is just beyond me.
Anyway, if you haven't seen Unbreakable yet, take my advice and don't bother. I wish I could unsee it.