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 Sense and didn’t see it in its theatrical run, had the ending spoilt and eventually caught it on DVD, I preferred the similarly themed Stir Of Echoes starring Kevin Bacon, 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.

It then switches to the character played by Bruce Willis who is named David Dunn, who is traveling by train back form New York to Philadelphia. A young lady sits next to him and he discreetly removes his wedding ring and starts a conversation, this embarrasses he young lady and she moves seat, so David puts the ring back on. Next thing we see is the train starts to speed up and shake, David looks around and sees other passengers starting to worry. The screen flashes and the scene ends.

The film then skips back to David and he is waking up in hospital, the doctor informs him he was in a train accident and amazingly he is the only survivor, not only that but he hasn’t a single cut on him, he escaped totally unharmed while 180 other people died. He walks out and meets his wife and son and goes home, when he returns home we find out his marriage isn’t going too well and he and his wife even sleep in separate beds. He was returning form New York from a job interview so he could move there away from the family, given this he still seems to have a good relationship with his son. He goes back to work, as a security guard, and when he finishes finds a card on is windscreen asking ‘How many days he’s been sick’, the card is from a place named Limited Edition.

Going to see this film you may be thinking it will be a lot like The Sixth Sense, but you will be wrong, you will probably be surprised by the film whatever you expected it to be, but only a few will probably like it as it doesn’t have the same wide appeal that The Sixth Sense did. The film and its plot go in such a strange direction and stretch the believability so far that many people will just not enjoy it, but its easy to see this film was written backwards. Shyamalan must of wrote the ending first and then wrote the rest of the film leading up to it, as good as the ending is the preceding 20 minutes are sloppy and rushed and the film dives into the ending too soon.

Performances are great with Willis being good as David Dunn, the man who doesn’t really seem to want much in life, and doesn’t know whether to believe Samuel L Jackson or not. Samuel L Jackson gives a strong performance as the weak and brittle Elijah, who can be brave and daring when he wants something, and is even willing to break some bones to prove his point. As Megan Dunn, David's wife, Robin Wright Penn is very good. She still cares very much about her husband, but we never really find out why the relationship went sour. The superhero aspect of the film is played with no humour at all, which may make it harder to believe for some people, but most of the common comic attributes are present. Bruce Willis’s security guards wears a long slicker jacket that look remarkable like a cape, many of the locations are given a fantasy style fell through lighting effects and Bruce even has a kind of spiderman sense which helps him catch people who are sneaking weapons into the stadium where he works. Remind me never to visit Philadelphia if it rains half as much as it does in this film then I dont want to be there.

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