Ponderous movie with lots of potential and lame ending

Rating: 4/10 (18 March 2002)

I love smart movies. I love profound movies. I enjoy it when movies explore the hyper-real aspect of something normally considered fantastical. In so many ways UNBREAKABLE should have been one of those movies.
But it wasn't.
I didn't care about the hero's relationship with his wife. Or his relationship with his son. The discovery that he might actually be a superhero was interesting, but the ending was a huge disappointment.
This was a first act of a movie, nothing else. And try as you may, you can't turn a first act into a compelling, satisfying movie.
Hopefully SIGNS will be better.