Satisfactory, Unique Film

Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2001)

"Unbreakable," written and directed by the creator of "The Sixth Sense," was a good movie. Although the plot was somewhat slow and the big action scenes were few and far between, it came out good in the end. "Unbreakable" is the story of a man with a unique power and a man who tries to inform him of it. As I already said, the plot was pretty slow. At some times i even consisdered walking out of the movie because I thought the plot was wandering. Some scenes involve Bruce Willis trying to recconcile his marriage and come off as pretty boring. You do grow to like the characters though, just like in "The Sixth Sense." You can absolutely tell that the writer and director is the same guy from "The Sixth Sense" for two reasons.
The first reason is that the movie has plenty scenes which wander from the plot and focus on the lives of the characters instead of the matter at hand. Some scenes are just times when the characters are silent, thinking about something, and leaving the audience waiting for some action, just like in "The Sixth Sense." These scenes aren't exactly bad, if that's the impression you're getting, because they help you to think of the characters more as people, people you might know or meet at the supermarket, instead of people in a movie. These scenes also wander away from the plot, and prevent you from thinking of the surprise ending, and what could happen. For example, all those scenes with Bruce Willis and his wife in "The Sixth Sense" made you think of them, and the healing of their marriage, instead of realizing the truth about Bruce Willis.
The second reason that let's you know that "Unbreakable" was created by the writer and director of "The Sixth Sense" is the ending. Don't worry, I won't give away the big ending like a lot of people probably did in "The Sixth Sense." In fact, I think the writer purposely made the ending more complicated than in it's predecessor so no one would give it away. And believe me, you won't know it. I bet the entire movie you'll be thinking about the ending, and about how you could figure it out, but you won't. M. Night Shamaylan just pulled the carpet out from under you- I mean this is "The Usual Suspects" style.
Well, I reccomend this movie to anyone who likes long drawn out movies with fabulous endings.
My Rating: 8/10