Broken

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2003)

Sixth Sense was a friggin' great movie. Scary, suspenseful, filled with dead people it helped liven up the summer.
The director who made Sixth Sense also made Unbreakable. Which, without a doubt, was the exact opposite of Sixth Sense. Bruce Willis, the poor devil, was roped into making this movie as well. I like to think he wasn't aware of what he was getting into.
This movie is into comic books. REALLY into comic books. Comic books ooze from every pore of the movie, coating it in a superhero veneer. But that is not what tarnishes the movie. Unless you don't like comic books of course.
What ruins this movie is pacing. It takes the first hour and a half to get around to anything more interesting than the cover art for issue #239 of "The Venomous Wolf" (Collector's edition!). And then when the action does arrive it's over within the space of ten minutes. And then it's time for the credit scrawl.
Maybe if you share the same intensity towards the world of comics as the director then it would be enjoyable to watch. But for me, whose comics used to lay strewn about the room unprotected in their little bag things, I was bored.
Watch Superman II if you want super heroes who actually do things.