Mister glass and broken story

Rating: 6/10 (10 December 2018)

This is quite late as a review but still I thought I'd write it anyways. Unbreakable is a film by M. Night Shyamalan and comes with all the things you'd expect with his earlier work. A slow burner drama, dark and brooding atmosphere, and a great story concept. The only real issue with this film is how stunted everything feels. The characters, the dialogue, amf the plot have no real sense of urgency that's needed to keep a slow burner drama alive and I feel that mostly hinges or the poor delivery from our main cast (excepting Samuel Jackson who has a stellar preformance). David (portrayed by Bruce Willis) doesn't care much for anything and based on the preformance he gives, it seems he didn't care to much about the film either. He almost always has a very non-feeling look and act to himself that makes him seem one demensional to the point that I was far more interested in the actor who played younger David than I was of David himself. Top that off with what seems like a borderline mentally abusive relationship he has with his son, and it spells disatster for a character were supposed to care about. The depression he had comes off less like he feels little to no importance or place in this world, and more like he's just a bit of an a**hole. Some scenes seemed to have no real internal logic within them and the child actor seemed to be afflicted with the same single emotion complex that Willis had throughout the film. While I enjoyed the movie, thanks in no small part to the eccentric preformance by Samuel L Jackson's, Mr. Glass, I was let down by a majority of the movie in the way it handled many scenes. It had such a tense atmosphere and great story hook but did very little with it to play on the actual drama of the film and a lot of investigative scenes in the film are handled very heavy handedly with Shyamalan treating us like we're children. With all that said, I still believe this is a must see if you enjoy Shyamalan, superheros, or slow burn dramas, so long as you go in with an open mind and focus on the storyline rather than the dialogue.