Almost Unbearable

Rating: 4/10 (12 March 2002)

After 6th sense, I had great respect for M.Night Shyamalan. With Unbreakable, methinks he has become rather self indulgent. The sole saving grace of the film is it's end. When Samuel L. Jackson turns out to be the evil genius. The twist in the surreal tale is brilliant to say the least, even better than that of SS, but whereas SS took you along on the most enjoyable ghost ride ever, Unbreakable drags. I watched the film in three painful sittings. Bruce Willis was awful as the super hero who doesn't know what a superb specimen of humanity he really is. He moved slowly, talked slowly and his whinging wife was just the icing on the cake. Whereas it worked when he played a ghost, it doesn't for his Superman in jeans. The only good thing in the film was Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah. I loved the hairdo and the suits. Shyamalan knows how to paint a picture in his own beautiful way, but can he give a story the colours it really needs like, well, that master of all masters Scorcese. I mean, Cape Fear and Casino has nothing in common, but Unbreakable was Willis sleepwalking back to life from the dead, if you know what I mean...