Unbreakable was almost unbearable

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2001)

I went into this movie expecting something on the par of "The Sixth Sense", which I thought was a terrific movie. I walked out with three other people all asking the same question I was, "What did we just waste two hours for???" I spent a little more than half the movie trying to figure out the plot. Then I suddenly realized, there was no plot.
Only the last few minutes were anything of note. But even those could not make up for the previous hour and a half of lackluster events. It tired to make that sudden twist at the end like in "The Sixth Sense", but this time it failed. Although, it did do a good job at failing. In "The Sixth Sense", the twist at the end was so emotional, gut wrenching, and thought provoking because during the whole movie you were being drawn into the story. Here, you weren't drawn in (I was slowly being repelled during the whole movie because of the lack of a story). Everything that the little twist refers back to is stuff that you had heard about, and the movie only alluded to. It didn't give you a chance to get interested.
I would liken this viewing experience to my one and only time attending a NASCAR event. There was a little excitement at the beginning, a little excitement scattered throughout (crashes), and a little excitement at the end. But all in all, each lap is pretty much like the one before (they are driving around an ellipse, not a whole lot of room for change there). And at the end I walked away wondering why I went through all that trouble to waste several hours of my life for a mild case of sunburn and a sore butt. I am just glad I didn't have to pay for this event...I wish I could say the same about this movie.
At least in this case, the movie theater was climate controlled. The only reason this isn't going to occupy my Number 1 Bad Movie is because that spot is already claimed by that abomination known as "The Blair Witch Project", so "Unbearable", ooops, I mean "Unbreakable" is going to have to settle for Number 2 on the Bad Movie List.