Breakable !

Rating: 4/10 (12 February 2010)

At the time, me and one of my friends used to discuss movies all the time non-stop. He watched (Unbreakable) first when it was released in 2000. And when we met days after it, in the funeral of his grandmother, he told me: "Without the end's twist, this is worthless!". Then, after 5 years, I watched it, to say: "This is not worthless. It's just disappointing".
Artistically, it got many good points. M. Night Shyamalan does know his tools pretty well, so he entertained us with perfectly exquisite shots, and real special atmosphere. But there were other, more deep, matters to bother.
For one, how David, the lead character, doesn't know that he lived a whole life sick-less?!! I deemed the scene, where he was asking about any vacations that he had before, a joke! Or how he forgot totally about the swimming pool's accident which was about to kill him, to a degree that made him a myth for years later?? I think that the lead that we watched wasn't a senile old man who forgets THAT BAD, or someone who suffers amnesia!
Then, the character of Elijah. On a simple level, it outwardly had excessively special features (bizarre haircut, strange raincoats, a 50s car,..) while that fits him as an odd man, they - in the same time - sort of conflicted with the fact that he did all of these crimes, since according to these very features, he was that easily traceable. However, what really provoked me was relating a "glass cane" to him. It was impossible, rather so silly, that a fragile person like him leans on a "glassy" cane!
On a profound level, the motive of Elijah wasn't believable. I thought he would search for his opposite, to be his friend, or to have a serum from his blood to cure his rare illness, or anything that may sound more logical and less weak.
I hated how the powers of David were many; he sees through clothes, knows people's life by touching them, bulletproof body, super muscles.. etc. And I hated more that "borrowing" from Stephen King's (The Dead Zone). Why to destroy the originality of your work by your own hands Mr. Shyamalan?!!
For some reason, I didn't like the sequence of the first mission; which centered on saving the kids from a deranged killer. I thought that's another movie.
Samuel L. Jackson did a good job, but Willis wasn't that completely convincing. I mean yeah, the man used his radiant charisma so fine, and Shyamalan's camera did a watchable effort with his face, however I clearly refer to his performance at the last scene; that dear Bruce.. was a fake! I don't know why, but I believe that big part in Willis, the actor, stopped caring much, or caring, since long time ago, being, in most cases, just an image of cold-hearted or senseless charismatic star!
A lot of viewers, such as my friend, banned the movie for being just less interesting or surprising than Shyamalan and Willis's previous, surely more profitable, movie (The Sixth Sense). While I'm aware that not all the movies need to be another (The Sixth Sense), I though (Unbreakable) was less original, having important points done weakly, and most of all, missing a substance, or a human message. It's attractively polished glass, but still a glass.. a breakable one too.