When an end saves the film...

Rating: 7/10 (22 August 2015)

The film tells the story of David Dunn, a security of an American football stadium with marital problems, and their relationship with Elijah Price, an African-American with a terrible and rare disease that makes his bones so brittle as glass. David, thanks to Elijah, discovers a series of superhuman powers that will change his own life.
Directed by Night Shyamalan, this film features Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in the lead roles and was the second movie where Willis worked with this director (the first was "The Sixth Sense"). Both actors played their roles very well, with Willis perfectly embodying the emotional and psychological conflicts of his character. Although the actors deserves congratulations, the most remarkable in this film is the script's central idea: a true homage to the world of comics, the film focuses his action in these magazines and their heroes and villains, which we can glimpse mirrored in the main characters, as well on several references and allusions that arise discreetly: some camera angles, the Dunn raincoat at the end of the film etc.
Unfortunately, there are also some less good aspects that results, mainly, from situations not totally understood, which may indicate that there were some mistakes in script's writing. In fact, it almost seems to us that the writer has devoted most of his attention to the end of the film, only (we will talk about that later). The first, and perhaps the most obvious error is the Elijah glass stick. It's simply incomprehensible that someone so ill uses a cane as fragile as their own bones. And how Elijah could meet Dunn's car to put his card on the windshield if both still didn't know each other? The origin of Dunn's powers is also incomprehensible, unlike Elijah condition, which is caused by a disease. Another flaw is the final fight, where David commits murder, something that a superhero simply don't do (and remember, the movie tries to embody in Dunn's character the qualities of a superhero). In the comics, the "bad guys" are defeated and handed over to the authorities or die as a result of his own wickedness. When David Dunn kills with his own hands he are closest to a "vigilante" than a hero, no matter the good intentions.
Despite these negative notes, "Unbreakable" is a film that does what it sets out to do and entertains the audience very well, mainly due to the central idea of ​​the plot, the excellent performance of the actors and the end of the story that is totally unexpected. Without the final twist of the story, this movie probably would have been a disappointment, a brilliant idea for a movie that would have ended badly used. These final is, indeed, surprising and so he ultimately "saves" the film, making the audience forget the mistakes that they can detect previously.