The Shyamalan Trademark Already Wearing Thin

Rating: 6/10 (23 July 2010)

Everyone wanted to love wunderkind M. Night Shyamalan's follow up to his break out hit "The Sixth Sense," but in only his second feature, the trappings that have since gone on to utterly ruin his films and his reputation were already beginning to wear thin.
Those trappings include lugubrious pacing; gray, dour production design; a tone almost silly in its degree of solemnity; and a "twist" ending that feels forced and anticlimactic.
I've caught "Unbreakable" on T.V. once or twice since seeing it in theatres back in 2000, and while it's not a terrible movie, it's a perfect one to have in the background if you want to take a nap.
Grade: B-