Unbreakable

Enjoyed and appreciated the additonal disc with all the making of footages. Awesome!

I forgot how cool this movie is. I like the use of reflections by the cinematographer.

Since M. Night Shyamalan is now continuing with this superhero movie series he created, I decided to go back and watch the first one.. I was extremely bored. The movie was really slow moving and there were too many long instances of no dialog with not a lot happening on the screen. However, the series has seemed to have gotten better with Split, so I may give Glass a try in 2019.

I would suggest watching the additional disk prior to watching the movie. We watched after to be sure we understood the movie the way it was intended and enjoyed it. Again a movie you have to pay attention and do some thinking. I know that may be difficult for some but give it a try.

Unbreakable is one of M. Night Shyamalan's greatest works in my personal opinion. Many people do not like it, and I can understand that. For a "superhero" movie, it was quite slow, but I loved it. There is so much attention to detail. Light/shadows, color, framing, props or people in the foreground/background, and camera angles were well-thought out and makes for an excellent, intelligent story of an everyday man with incredible abilities. All the characters in this story are meant to be symbols that we can relate to in our own life, and that is what makes it an incredible movie.

This movie has a great plot. A train crashes and 131 passengers die, leaving one person alive. If that doesn’t sound crazy enough, the survivor, David Dunn, exits the crash unscathed! How is that possible? Elijah Price, another character in the movie, seems to have some thoughts on this. If there is someone like him in the world, who is extremely fragile (he has osteogenesis imperfecta – a genetic disorder where the bones are extremely fragile), then there must be someone on the opposite side of the spectrum, who is completely “unbreakable”. This movie is not really for those who enjoy fast paced movies as it is fairly slow.
- @JuiceboxZ of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library

the 6th sense was a pretty cool movie. unique when it came out, but i've been disappointed with the rest of M night shamalyan's works. all just a little too weird for me, i guess.

in this one, it just seemed to move really slow. and bruce willis was a bit annoying actually.

This was director and writer M Night Shamalyan's homage to comic book heroes. David Dunn, unhappilly married father of one, takes a train for a job interview. On the way back it crashes and he is the sole survivor. Not a single broken bone. Just missing his shoes. The train is a mangled mess of debris. At the mass funeral of the victims, David finds a note on his windshield asking him if he's ever been sick a day in his life. He hasn't. And he has another secret. When he was in high school and in a terrible car accident, he lifted the car off of his girlfriend. The note leads him to Elijah, the owner of a comic book art gallery and the victim of osteogenesis imperfecta stage 4, e.g. "brittle bones". He's had over a hundred broken bones in his life. And he figured, after reading so many comic books, that it stood to reason if someone like him could be born, someone whose bones break so easily, then there must be his exact opposite, a man who was unbreakable. By the time he convinces David he's a real-life superhero, a murderer has broken into a family's home, killed the parents, and tied up the children. One of my all-time favorite movies. The setup is perfect, the casting is well done, the musical score is perfect, and the ending is perfect. It makes you believe in superheroes.

Interesting movie but far (very far) from The Sixth Sense.
Disappointed.

This is a 2000 American neo-noir superhero drama directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
It is a kinda experimental drama to me---film version of comic-book story combined with the real world and comic-book world.
It tells the story of Philadelphia security guard David Dunn, who slowly discovers that he possesses superhuman powers.
Although this suspenseful film intrigues and engages you, taking you through unpredictable twists and turns along the way, the story doesn't really satisfy me at the end.
Screen captions reveal that David reported Elijah's actions to the police, and that Elijah was convicted of murder and terrorism, and committed to an institution for the criminally insane.
The director should've shown all those actions, instead of telling you through the captions.