Unbreakable (DVD)

...very good film and because Unbreakable starred Bruce Willis and was directed by Shyamalan, many had thought that it would be the natural sequel. When I watched Unbreakable at the cinema, I left feeling a little disappointed, not because the film was sub-standard, but because I was looking for another Sixth Sense-esque movie – I suspect this was the same for many. However, after seeing it again (x2), I realised that my original judgement was a little ...
...have probably gathered by now, Unbreakable sees Bruce Willis in a starring role again as he tries desperately to break the mould of his stereotypical, vest-wearing action hero. He plays David Dunn who, at the start of the film, is involved in a train crash which kills all crew and passengers except for him. In fact, he manages to escape without a scratch. This miraculous feat brings him to the attention of Elijah Price, played brilliantly by Samuel ...

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...situation whilst encountering Elijah. Unbreakable is, as with any other Shyamalan picture, a trick of the mind. It lulls you into one way of thinking, only to differ in perspective once you encounter it's twist (generally situated just before the ending). The performances on the whole, are sound; Jackson is the stand-out as the questioning Elijah, whilst Willis is amicable in the part of David, a security guard who probably wished he'd never encountered ...

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...than meets the eye. Unbreakable was M Night Shyamalan’s directorial follow-up to the hugely successful movie, The Sixth Sense. Many people expected him to come up with another supernatural, eerie thriller, and whilst there are some similarities between Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense, I think that most people were slightly disappointed with this film. Unbreakable’s appeal is certainly less universal than that of The Sixth Sense, and ...
...both The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable have a similar plot construct. Firstly, the presence of Bruce Willis as the lead character is notable in each, largely because his character undergoes a similar process of self-discovery. Also, each of the leads has a young male child supporting character, who seems very knowing about an otherwise inexplicable scenario and aside from the fact that they are played by different actors, the two children could be ...

LostWitness 04.12.2002 (16.02.2004) · Read full review
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...sort of super hero and unbreakable – sort of the exact opposite of himself. David’s son Joseph is very keen on this idea and later in the movie tries to convince his Dad that he is actually unbreakable! Joseph finds his Dads gun and bullets and aims the gun at him saying it won’t hurt and he shouldn’t be afraid (yeah right). David convinces his son to put the gun down by telling him he will be in big trouble if he doesn’t. ...
...that Elijah was wrong and his Dad isn’t a super hero and if he shots him he will be hurt. I was cringing at this point. What a nightmare!! He does put the gun down you will be pleased to know and the movie moves on – David is trying to remember his past – was he ever sick!! Well not sick but he’d had a few accidents. When he was a young boy he almost killed in a swimming accident – so now you know his weakness!! Like ...

niclemamy 29.06.2001 · Read full review
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...speak to ghosts, I found Unbreakable to be no less poignant. Bruce Willis plays David Dunn, a football arena security guard who walks away the sole survivor of a terrible train wreck - - without a single scratch on him. After the accident, David meets an enigmatic comic book store owner named Elijah, played by Samuel Jackson, who is convinced that comic book heroes truly do walk the earth. David is forced, initially kicking and screaming, through ...
...over again - year after year, without being bored. I became a M. Night Shyamalan fan the first time I watched the Sixth Sense. Unbreakable has only increased my loyalty to this unique filmmaker. I hope he continues gracing his with his work for some time to come. ...

freeelkind 23.07.2002 · Read full review
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...comics’ - Brodie Unbreakable is the much-anticipated follow up to The Sixth Sense by M Night Shyamalan and like it predecessor also features Bruce Willis. Though not officially the next film he wrote after The Sixth Sense (that was Stuart Little minus the fart jokes which he claims dusney added themselves, but he wrote it for his child), he must of took the time to figure out what he was going to do. I wasn’t a really big of The Sixth ...
...but the teaser trailer for Unbreakable made it seem very interesting and gave away nothing much, just what it has too, it catch peoples attention. The film opens with a black screen in which various facts about comics appear on the screen, like the amount sold every year. It then switches to a shop and in the back room a women as given birth to a baby which was supervised by a shop assistant the doctor arrives and the baby is crying a lot, the doctor ...

Silent_Bob 10.04.2001 · Read full review
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UNBREAKABLE (2000) Director: M Night Shyamalan(also directed The Sixth Sense) Starring: Bruce WIllis (Character - David Dunn) Sam 'Baddest Muthaf#cka in the Galaxy' Jackson (Character - Elijah Price) STORY: - David Dunn (Willis) is the lone survivor of a horrific train crash that leaves every other passenger dead. He is on the frontpage of every newspaper in America which brings him to the attention of a weird comic book collector Elijah Price ...
...ws not just fate that made him survive the train crash, it is because he is a superhero. EXTRAS: - * Behind the Scenes Featurette (Includes interviews with Willis, Jackson and Night as well as an assortment of crew members). * Comic Books and Superheroes Featue * Train Station Featuretter: Multi-Angle Feature * Deleted Scene * Nights First Fight Sequence; The behind the scenes featurette is very good, all except where they go on and on about ...

danm2 03.08.2001 · Read full review
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...film could have been. Unbreakable has been billed as the unofficial sequel to the sixth sense but as far as I can see the only similarity between the two are the writing and directing talents of M. Night Shyamalan (who also wrote the screenplay to Stuart Little and Wide Awake starring Dennis Leary.) Anyway, before I completely put anyone off ever seeing this film again (which I assure you is not my intention) I better give you at least a basic ...
...bring myself to completely recommend Unbreakable as a "must see" film. At times I feel the film could have been improved by upping the pace slightly, with perhaps a few less seemingly completley irrelevant scenes setting up the meeting with Elijah. In summary, if your looking for a great film, this isn't it. But if you like Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson its probably an entertaining way of spending a couple of hours. ...

SteveAston 30.01.2001 (01.02.2001) · Read full review
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Unfortunately for Unbreakable it had some people going into it expecting something along the lines of The Sixth Sense. the resulted in a some disappointed reactions but look closer and this is actually a film which is far better than most of the Hollywood ouput purely because it's story is very clever and interesting. Willis plays David Dunn, a security guard who is the only survivor of a train wreck, he walks away with not even a scratch. This brings ...
...like everybody else. Unbreakable is slow moving but for a reason, I wouldn't call The sixth sense a fast paced film either so I don't see peoples problems. Too many movies have started to resort to the A.D.D style of filmmaking and it takes someone like M. Night to slow things down and give his film a distinct style. His scripts themes are very grand and he waves a comic book world with ease, I class this as a fantasy with a classic case of hero ...

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In his second attempt to move away from the sweaty vest brigade, Willis tries to move away from the pure action genre into a more plot driven film. But was it another success like “Sixth Sense” Not quite! The Story ********* David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is an ordinary security guard living a normal everyday life until one day, he takes a train journey. The train crashes killing 131 passengers on board. Only one survives, David Dunn. Not only is he the ...
...Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) is one of lifes unfortunates. Born with a disease, causing him to suffer with severly weak bones. This earns Price the unfortunate nickname of “Mr Glass”. Price runs a specialist Comic book shop, this allows him to satisfy his imagination and fascination with super heros. Price learns about Dunns miraculous escape on the news. Convinced Dunn is a super hero, Price tracks him down and tries to convince Dunn of his ...

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...one and the same. Unbreakable is also by the same film team as Sixth Sense; Director, film crew etc. There was also supposed to be a similar supernatural theme. Consequently, having loved the Sixth Sense, we were really looking forward to seeing Unbreakable. If you have seen any trailers for this film, then I am sure you will have gathered that Bruce Willis, our hero, is involved in a horrifying train crash at the beginning of the film. Miraculously, ...
...special powers that make him unbreakable and the film is largely about him realising this. There are two main disadvantages to the story so far. The first is that Willis’ character demands no sympathy from us at all in the first half of the film, we don’t know why exactly but there seem to be certain aspects to his personality that are not nice at all. Neither can we relate to the character of Samuel L Jackson, his character was far ...

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Unbreakable was the much-hyped “next offering” from M. Night Shyamalan, which was to be BETTER than The Sixth Sense. Before its release in the cinema, I was looking forward to it with bated breath, along with the other millions. It took just over two hours for all that bated breath to be sadistically squeezed from my body as I was deposited unceremoniously on the slag-heap of bored, frustrated film watchers who’d rather like their ...
...It deserved its praise. Unbreakable begins superbly. The audience is treated to an almost Hitchcockian initial scene, where the camera centres on a mirror reflecting the image of a mother cradling her newborn child. The shot confuses the viewer, sets them off-balance, and puts them on their guard. The scene gives little explanation of what is to come, but that is not unusual these days. Next up, the Hitchcock continues: a fast-moving train, the ...

james.bridgeman 23.01.2001 (26.06.2002) · Read full review
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There is a time - about ten minutes from the end of this movie - when I thought ‘No, you can’t end it like that’. Suffice to say – ‘It didn’t’ ! This is the story of David Dunn – a man who survives an horrific train crash. The sole survivor – but more than that – he has not a scratch on him! He is just an ordinary guy. A Stadium security guard with his marriage on the rocks. He has just ...
...interview for a new job. A job that would take him away from his family and give him a new start. Little does he know that his ‘new start’ begins with that train wreck! Those of you who saw Director/Writer, M.Night Shyamalan’s first collaboration with leading man Bruce Willis, ‘Sixth Sense’, may guess that this new movie ‘Unbreakable’ will be tense, taut and at times mesmeric. With the subject matter it ...

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A very typical story about extraordinary events happening to an everyman BUT with a much vaunted set of twists, M. Night Shyamalan returns with generally a very underappreciated movie....I say this is grossly unfair. Bruce Willis is David Dunn, a security guard with his marriage in turmoil. On a train journey, returning from a job interview in New York, he ponders his future and how it will affect his family....and then disaster strikes.... There ...
...that it takes a lot of residual guile to accept them AND they are the beginning (the train wreck) AND the end (realisation). Emerging from the train wreck which he was involved, Willis escapes unscathed much to the astonishment of those around him. A brief history about him appears....he’s never taken a day off work through sick leave, he’s never been ill, he’s never been hurt.... In comes, the appearance of the other main character ...

the_grouch 30.05.2001 · Read full review
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...I have ever seen! So, Unbreakable was already off to a difficult start! However, Bruce Willis had managed it once again, with the help of the incredible Samuel L Jackson. Bruce managed to turn in another worthy performance along the lines of Twelve Monkeys. You all know the story by now. Sam Jackson has a syndrome which causes his body not to produce particular compounds, meaning his bones are incredibly fragile, hence the nickname Mr Glass. Bruce ...
...never been ill, never been injured and manages to survive a fatal train derailment without a scratch or bruise to show for it. Elijah Wood (Jackson) hears about him and goes about persuading Dunn that he is a modern day comic-book hero and that he should follow that up by becoming a hero. Shyamalan has doubled up and shown his fave type of movie...that of normal people in normal lives exhibiting incredible talents and abilities. Sixth Sense was ...

poodu 08.01.2001 · Read full review
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