Slow-ish but Good-ish...

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2001)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I liked it. From the comments here, you'd think that this was on the level of 'Freddie Gets Fingered' or something. Hardly. This has alot more going right for it than wrong. These are...:
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Good Willis performance. Sad, something missing, something out of synch in his life, typical blue collar feel to his characterization. Willis was believable and I thought quite committed to the role.
Sammy Jax was OK though what was up with that Buckwheat hair? Hmmmm. I liked him here, interesting kinda character to be playing too.
Robin Wright(of Gump fame) does her normal 'strained beauty' bit, didn't see anything outstanding one way or another with her. I thought the kid was okay too, basic sitcom kid w/a '70s haircut. That was cool too.

As far as the build up, I liked it. I liked the old 'Spidey Sense' that Willis had whenever he bumped into baddies-a jewel theif here, a robber there, a racist thug there-very nicely done. I liked the slow pace of discovery. I liked how he was shown slowly trying to piece back his marriage/family together through all of this. And I liked the hints from the past-the pool, the accident-which showed that his 'Unbreakable' ability was real.
The battle in the house with the home invader was nicely done, and a kinda realistic Superhero doing. It's not like Dr Doom is waiting around the corner with an army of DoomBots, guys. The whole falling into the pool was quite good too.
I also thought the ending-where Sammy Jax is shown to be the guy who derailed the train, blew up the hotel, etc etc-to be a little unbelievable given his inability to fall down stairs without breaking into 100 pieces-but at least it lets us in on what his character was truly all about. And it's supposed to be a comic or homage to comics, you do need that arch villain. So they gave us one.
Good job.
*** outta ****