yawn

Rating: Null/10 (13 December 2002)

This is by far the dullest and most boring movie I have ever seen.
I'm just so tired of all these movies that has come out of Hollywood in the last years, trying to be so fancy. It seems like the filmmakers forget that there is a story that has to be told. And this story has to be at least a little entertaining. It's like, in the old days (up until 1995-96) the inside of the movie was the most interesting target, now it is the outside. If "Ghostbusters" had been made these days, the biggest effort would probably had been to create the fanciest ghosts, and that wonderful story that was developed in 1984 had never existed at all.
It also p***es me off to see Bruce Willis (of all people) in these "serious" movies. Gone are the charm, and all those quick lines. Bruce Willis is a character actor with a big sense of humor. The last good movie he made was "the sixth element".
Unbreakable is about two people who are destined to meet, and they do. One of them is unbreakable (Willis), and the other one is VERY breakable (Samuel L. Jackson). This has something to do with a train crash. I don't even remember. That's about it. Now I don't mind a lame story, but there has to be something else in the movie then, that excites me or make me laugh, cry or scream. But this movie goes on for two hours with no action whatsoever. And I think it is supposed to be an action movie. One of these hours is dedicated to a bench pressing- scene where Bruce finds out how strong he is. "Put another weight on, and another, and another. I don't think the audience will mind".
Nothing happens, NOTHING. No charachter laughs, or even smile. Now there are other movies where nothing happens. Take "a few good men" for instance. That movie has other things that catches your interest, including some shouting and yelling in the end. Charachters actually reacting to something. Thank good for that. When I watched "unbreakable", all I thought about was how badly I wanted to see some other movie, anyone.
So Bruce, please, get in touch with John McTiernan or Tony Scott, or any other of your fellow companions. Everything is forgiven!
My final grade is -10 out of 100. Go see Blind date, or one of the Die hard-movies instead. Or even "the sixth sense" (I hate that one too). But this movie is the most breakable movie I have ever seen!