Good movie

Rating: 7/10 (24 November 2000)

"Unbreakable" is writer/director M. Night Shyamalan's follow-up to his surprise box office smash from last year "The Sixth Sense". It's not quite as good as "The Sixth Sense", but "Unbreakable" is an intriguing thriller nevertheless. Bruce Willis once again teamed up with Shyamalan and Samuel L. Jackson (who co-starred with Willis in "Pulp Fiction" and "Die Hard With A Vengeance") to tell the tale of a man who's the sole survivor of a deadly train wreck which leaves him completely injury free. During the course of the film he tries to find out why he walked away from that train crash without a scratch or a broken bone in his body (hence the title). Shyamalan provides another surprise ending for this film just like in "The Sixth Sense". However in my opinion there's a big difference. The ending of Shyamalan's Oscar-nominated blockbuster was very effective and shocking. But I thought the ending for "Unbreakable" was kind of silly. Still, it's a good thriller.
*** (out of four)