Complete Failure

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2001)

This movie failed at an attempt to be a really spectacular film. Being a screenwriter myself, I can point out one singular reason:
SPOILER
1) The ending is just displayed and made up on the spot to the viewer instead of going back into key scenes already shown and re-evaluating them. This caused the character of Elijah to become poorly underdeveloped.
It is obvious that M. Night used the exact same formula from 'The Sixth Sense' to create 'Unbreakable'. The difference between the success of 'Sixth Sense' and the box office bombing of 'Unbreakable' is that viewers could go back into the movie to watch scenes that foreshadowed the ending. This could not happen with 'Unbreakable', the outcome is given to us on silver platter and fed to the viewer like a child... a very unskilled way of story-telling.
Sorry, M. Night, but the best thing for you to do would be to write a completely different genre, else don't quit your day job, buddy.