Close to Perfect

Rating: 9/10 (19 October 2002)

This is one of the few movies that come close to being perfect. It has an amazing story to tell, but it's the sort of movie you get more out of the first time by NOT knowing much about it, I didn't and it took me by surprise. If you might think you want to see it, don't read any more, just see it, for the rest of this text might contain spoilers.
This movie is far superior to M. Night Shayamalan's breakthrough film "The Sixth Sense", because where "The Sixth Sense" is a movie that looses it shock effect after the first viewing, "Unbreakable" is a movie that should have to be watched over and over, and it even getting better. This movie is a perfect exsample of the impact Steven Spielberg has had on the up-coming generation of film-makers, you can clearly see that Shayamalan has taken Spielbergs understated cinematography and uses it to perfection, look at the three sequences, 1-where Elijah get his comic book, how the camera follows it, 2-when David works out, and 3-when David carries Audrey back into their releationship. It sets the mood, and it's perfect. All the way through Shayamalan uses this understated cinematography to get us into the story and to get us to feel how the characters feel. And maybe the one with the biggest impact, where David rises from the swimming pool, the pictures tells the story.
In a few years, this is the movie that M. Night Shayamalan is gonna be remembered for, not "The Sixth Sense" or "Signs", this is the one. The only thing that holds it from being perfect is that many will be thrown of by the slow-paced and un-conventional story of a Superhero to be, this is not like any "Superman" or "Spider-Man" movie, this is real.
This is a Masterpiece, and it's totally "Unbreakable".
11/10