I think you are missing the point...

Rating: Null/10 (6 December 2001)

I only have 1,000 words, so bear with me. After having read user comment after comment, the negative ones I have read all have the same misconception. First of all, Unbreakable is a brilliant movie that didn't get the press it deserved, which is fine. You just have to remember two things.
Number 1, this is NOT a comic book movie. Superman, Batman, X-Men, etc. these are all comic book movies. They are based on a comic book and follow a premise that was set in a comic book. Unbreakable draws no specific themes from any comic book, so if you don't read comic books, it doesn't matter. (This movie is not about the display of superpowers like optic blasts or weather control. This is a dramatic movie, not sci-fi.) It won't effect your knowledge of the movie. Like any other movie, just go in with an open mind. I'm not a sports agent, but I understood Jerry McGuire. I'm not a stock broker, but I loved Wall Street. And I'm not a middle-aged man going through a mid-life crisis, but American Beauty was pure genuis to me. Anyway, you get the point.
Secondly, forget all other movies, especially Sixth Sense. Why do people constantly compare previous movies to their predecessors? If Spielberg's next movie after E.T was Saving Private Ryan, would people had held it with such acclaim? They are two separate movies, as are these two movies.
So forget Sixth Sense, forget all the hype that came with it, forget the ending, and expect nothing from Unbreakable and I promise you'll get more in return than you bargained for.