A Masterful Story

Rating: 9/10 (29 June 2001)

Each part of this film is thoughfully layed out against the background allowing for the story to be told, not through words but through the scenes and the actions themselves. Much like a comicbook with its little squares.
As in comicbooks sometimes you don't need the dialogue for the story to be told. Here the story is told through the movment of the camera, people only speak when it is required that they do so. Here the story tells itself, and in that shows us that Mr. Shyamalan has become even better at storytelling, although he has yet to find the perfect way to end, perhaps he might try just letting it be. These characters, people, end too soon the lives they begin to learn. It came sudden, too fast to focus on the rest. When the rest of the movie was slow and deliberate the end cut it short, as if he were impatient to really get the point across. Those people who said that this movie was a downturn from The Sixth Sense should watch Unbreakable again and see what they missed the first time. The Sixth Sense can only be seen once as a film, the second time it's a movie. Unbreakable will always be a film, because the ending is known, it's the characters you want to watch, not the action.