Before It's Time

Rating: 7/10 (31 January 2019)

Perhaps seeing this after 2017's Split removed some of the intended impact of that films surprise ending, but I'll always contend that Split wasn't a good film before that twist anyway.
But in terms of Unbreakable, it turned out to be a decent film after all. If you remove the obviously pretentious (and frustratingly unnecessary) camera movements, then you have a fascinating and original character study that just so happens to feel like a comic book film. It's slow building and dated in some areas but the concepts that M. Night proposes are interesting, especially in the eyes of a 2000 era filmmaker. You know, before the golden age of superhero films.
I liked it more than I thought, it's just too bad the other two films in the series didn't hit the highs that Unbreakable did.
7.4/10