An original and interesting movie

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2000)

Unbreakable was a very enjoyable and thought provoking movie, mixed with equal parts suspense, comedy, drama, and action. The movie, while not an edge of your seat thriller, was able to keep interest in it from the beginning to the end with subtle revelations and plot expansion. The largest fault in the film which deals with pacing. The movie is slow, and there are a lot of times when it seems as though the pace should be picked up a couple of notches. Unbreakable is not the Sixth Sense, thank goodness. There were similarities, as there would be in any directors films, such as his use of color to offer visual clues and emotional weight. Given the comic book backdrop of the plot, I think that the use of color is more fitting in this movie, assigning the colors much as a comic book artist would. There is also the idea of a "surprise ending" that is carried over from the Sixth Sense, however the ending is not nearly as crucial as it was in the earlier movie. In the Sixth Sense, the ending was crucial to the plot. The ending "reinvented" the movie, and it was in many ways the defining moment of the movie. In Unbreakable, the ending was there to fill in the gaps in the plot, gaps that I generally noticed, then forgot about, and which were all brought together in the end. This was a fine movie, it is a fun concept that everybody at one time has thought about, and it puts forward fantastical ideas with the foundation being real people with real problems, real jobs, and real lives.