A very clever film.

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2001)

Unbreakable happens to be one of those movie where you have no idea how it is going to end. It is superbly written and directed by Shyamalan, and is greatly complimented by the performances of Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.
Although there have been many comparisons between Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense, I find very little similarity between the two films. The only thing that is the same, is that they are both written and directed Shyamalan, and they both star Bruce Willis. The story lines are very different.
I feel that it brought some substance to the very dead, and boring, super hero genre. It did this by adding a touch of reality to an other wise very unrealistic story. Shyamalan added the human touch, however cold it might be. The screenplay was great, and not once was it Hollywoodized or made to be overly climatical.
James Newton Howard composed a very fitting score, that complimented what was on the screen very well. It is a great score and I was surprised that it was not nominated for an Academy award.
All in all, Unbreakable is not, as so many have deemed it, a Sixth Sense rip-off. It is film making of the first order and was one of the best of 2000, it is right up there with "Traffic" and "Gladiator". I have seen it three times and each time it was more enjoyable than the last. It is a brilliant film from a brilliant film maker, and I give it 10/10. See this movie, you won't regret it.