Small scale saves the day

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2017)

Plot; A man survives a train accident unharmed, catching the attention of a mysterious art gallery owner with an obsession for comic books.
As with many of Shyamalan's movies, there are moments in Unbreakable where it doesn't pay to think too hard about its logic if you want to enjoy the film to its fullest. If that sounds like a cop out, well, maybe it is. But with entertainment there's often a reward for such forgiveness, and that certainly applies here.
Some dubious logic aside, Unbreakable is an exceptionally well made, well acted slow burn of a film. It is, for all intents and purposes, a comic book movie, but it lacks the CGI spectacle and mass destruction now so closely associated with the genre. That sort of thing can and has been done well (Avengers, Winter Soldier), but it's starting to become so much white noise, making this pre comic book movie renaissance entry feel refreshing.