Cranial overload......but worth it!

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2002)

It appears to me, films by M Night Shyamalan reach a specifically receptive audience only. If you are not "on-line" with this particular "market niche" specialist, all you're ever going to discern is movement, meaningless words and probable boredom.
UNBREAKABLE, I believe is an unsurpassable work. The last 60 seconds of this film simply made me cry, I was just totally overwhelmed by what I was seeing. Great as THE SIXTH SENSE and SIGNS are, their "shock" ending doesn't come close to this. My God, if this doesn't move you you're already dead. Willis is excellent as security guard David Dunn the only survivor of a major train wreck and who has to face up to his seeming immortality (Major shades of cult Aussie movie THE SURVIVOR)
Samuel L. Jackson however is at the opposite end of the spectrum. An art gallery proprietor born with a congenital bone condition which causes the least accident or fall to shatter his skeletal support. As in all Shyamalan films what you think you are seeing is proven to be quite inaccurate at the conclusion.
In the case of UNBREAKABLE, the outcome is so unexpected as to be quite an emotional upheaval! An incredible film by any standards. Hard to understand why it was considered a "lesser outing" to THE SIXTH SENSE! But, and I emphasise the fact, the audience must "stick with this" it doesn't support the "casual" viewer in any shape or form.