Often excellent, mostly good...

Rating: 7/10 (1 January 2001)

MAYBE SPOILERS! ABOUT THE SIXTH SENSE THOUGH NOT THIS FILM!!
OK, lets set the scene, just so you know I enjoy the Sixth Sense as a film, when I first saw it the twist blew me away. However, once I thought about it, I decided it didn't really work, here's a guy that's been living out his life for some unknown amount of time (although I think its fair to assume its probably a few months or so) without anyone saying a word to him, without human touch and generally walking about finding locked doors and silence in his path. I don't think the end worked because surely he would have sensed something was wrong and wouldn't have been the calm character he actually was. So now you know my taste in Syamalan...
But anyway, this review is about Unbreakable, which, in short I did like, but I found to be very flawed. The beginning bored me to death, but then came Samuel L. and all was well :) He was great as ever in this movie, filling each scene he was in with his uncanny ability to hold the screen on his (brittle) shoulders. But while this film did have its superb moments (when Willis stands in the train station in his raincoat was a stand out moment for me) mostly it seemed to be too much of good ideas wasted. But, as I said, I enjoyed the film despite its lack of depth and unfortunately lethargic pace.
But I would recommend seeing it, the twist at the end of this outing is a pretty good one, even if I did guess it before the end...but at least this time it made sense :)
I gave the film 7/10 in IMDB, because it had a nice sense of humour and a good sense of reality, even if some of its handling of the superhero methodology was a little too comic book for the real life setting.