Unbreakable

Rating: 7/10 (23 September 2005)

The first time I saw it I thought it rubbish (somehow), but watching it again, I can see why it is four stars, and it is a pretty good film from director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense). The film begins with the birth of a prominent character, who almost immediately after being born broke some bones, he was born with brittle bones, easy to break. Then the story moves to security guard David Dunn (Bruce Willis) miraculously being the lone survivor of a mile-long train crash (that you find out later was not accidental), and with no injuries what-so-ever. It is after that David meets that brittle-bone guy, Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), nicknamed "Mr. Glass", who runs a comic book art gallery, and he believes not only that they have links to the truth (and they are merely money-making media exaggerations), but that they are linked. He believes that David, being strong and not able to injured, is the opposite of what Elijah is, oh, and he has a weakness, water. The two scenes you can really believe this "mythology" could be true, are when David asks his son Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark) to keep putting more heavy stuff on exercise weights, and during a fight with a crook. Also starring Forrest Gump's Robin Wright Penn as Audrey Dunn and Charlayne Woodard as Elijah's Mother. This is quite a good film that does not hype the superhero format, and darkens it into a thriller genre. Oh by the way, it was Elijah that caused the train crash, he caused many incidents to find an opposite of him, i.e. someone that would survive. Very good!