Surprised

Rating: 9/10 (29 November 2000)

I am truly surprised that there are so many negative comments about Unbreakable.
Usually Bruce Willis' acting is too flat for my taste. However he brings just the right amount of detachment to the portrayal of a man, David Dunn, who is just going through the motions of life, until he discovers that he is "unbreakable."
Samuel L. Jackson delivers an amazing performance as Elijah Price, a frail comic book collector searching for his "reason for being." Price philosophises about comic books representing the mythic archetypal dualities of our common human experience, good/evil, strong/weak, unbreakable/fragile...
If I must criticise, I would say that there were several threads in the story that were not fully developed, for example, Dunn's relationship with his family. Yet the telling of the central theme of Good vs. Evil was so artfully done, one will hardly notice.
Unbreakable is a simple, age-old story. It is well told, and well worth seeing.