slow paced but effective thriller despite misguided final twist

Rating: Null/10 (12 February 2009)

'Unbreakable' is a slow, reasonably effective film which suffers only from a misguided final twist. The bulk of the film works well as a spooky supernatural thriller with comic book undertones. Indeed, (MINOR SPOILERS), M Night Shyamalan's film works as a highly unusual superhero origin tale. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson do a good job and play well off each other. The film does have occasional lapses into pretentiousness and the scenes with Willis's family are a bit tedious. The unnecessary ending twist was probably added after the success of The Sixth Sense's final twist. Still quite watchable.
Overall 7/10