What if you had superpowers but wanted to be an ordinary man?

Rating: 8/10 (16 March 2001)

Following up on such a successful debut as "the Sixth sense" would be impossible, so Shyamalan doesn't even try it. What he has done is a low key, eerie thriller bordering on the supernatural, not quite crossing over the line. One could say it has the same theme as "the Sixth Sense", but a totally different perspective.
Short recap of the story: Elijah Price is born with a serious disease making his bones very brittle. (In fact, he is born with both his arms and legs broken.) As an encouragement to make him go outside his home, his mother gives him comic books each time he ventures outside. So he grows up into a successful art dealer and comics collector (Samuel L. Jackson). He becomes fixated on the idea that if people with physical deficiensies exist, there has to be people on the other end of the spectrum wich lacks any physical weaknesses. In other words; superheroes.
When a serious train crash occurs with a single survivor, David Dunn (Bruce Willis), Price is certain he has found his hero. Price then tries to convince Dunn that he really is a superhero. What follows is quite an interesting struggle between the reluctant Dunn, the charismatic Price and Dunn's son who really wants his dad to be something more heroic than an ordinary security guard. More and more we learn that Dunn might be more than he seems at the same time as Dunn and his son do. We also realise that Price might not be so disturbed as he seems, but right until the end we are kept in the dark on exactly who (if not all) of the characters live in a dream world.
Short summary: If you have an open mind and would like to see a different thriller, you will probably like Unbreakable. Especially if you know your comic herobook trivia and recognise the symbolic clues sprinkled throughout the movie. If you liked Sixth Sense and think this is just a sequel with more of the same, you will probably be disappointed.