Unbreakable

Unbreakable

30/3/2001 1h 46m 7.1/10

Overview

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

Director

M. Night Shyamalan

Top Billed Cast

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

Elijah Price

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis

David Dunn

Robin Wright

Robin Wright

Audrey Dunn

Spencer Treat Clark

Spencer Treat Clark

Joseph Dunn

Eamonn Walker

Eamonn Walker

Dr. Mathison

Charlayne Woodard

Charlayne Woodard

Elijah's Mother

Reviews

John Chard

7/31/2015

10/10

Soon found out had a heart of glass. It often gets forgotten just what an exciting talent M. Night Shyamalan was during the early part of his film making career. True that Unbreakable, with its deliberate slow pacing and left-field narrative, would (and has) proved to be not everyone's cup-o-tea, but there's a film making craft here, and a genius idea brought to vivid life, that makes a spectrum of film lovers lament how his career nose dived, how his ideas quickly got as stupid as his acting... Unbreakable challenges the thought process, spinning a story that's of a adult comic book heart, but also of a clinical human examination. The narrative is consistently ambiguous, holding the patient viewers in enthral as the cosmic conundrums come tumbling off of the screen. It's refreshing to find a story like this that is so devoid of cliché, where the wonderfully reflective Bruce Willis and the brilliantly fascinating Samuel L. Jackson feed off each other, their character's destinies superbly steered by cast and director. Unbreakable is a complex movie, but not needlessly so, its strengths are numerous for those of a keen eye and ear. It represents Shyamalan's most clever cinematic offering, to which the sad realisation comes to pass that he would never, as yet, be this smart and vibrant again. 10/10

Gimly

Gimly

2/6/2017

6/10

Not The Shamhammer's best, but certainly of the era when he was still making "good". Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go.

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