Good idea, but too slow

Rating: 6/10 (8 January 2001)

Unbreakable really has a nice story to tell. But M. Nights new movie lacks the intensity of "The Sixth Sense" and therefore, many scenes just drag along and you have already grown tired of the movie when the final big surprise hits you.
Also, the comic book feeling just does not seem to work. As an avid comic book reader, I was quite open to the basic idea of the movie, but by giving the film a very realistic approach, the director lost the opportunity to use the comic genre as he could have. Some of the actions and dialogues of the Willis and Jackson characters therefore simply seem silly instead of fitting into the flow of the story.
So all in all though this was an interesting movie, it was way too long and too slow to reach the great quality of its predecessor.