BBM at the movies - Unbreakable review

     Unbreakable          Bush - 7      Mahon - 7.5
          Score - 7.33         Bates - 7.5

2000
106 mins
dir - M. Night Shyamalan
stars - Bruce Willis             - David Dunn
            Samuel L. Jackson   - Elijah Price
            Robin Wright           - Audrey Dunn
            Spencer Treat Clark - Joseph Dunn

     I had the feeling after seeing the trailers that it was going to be pretty much the
same as Sixth Sense, and although the two films do have their similarities both stories
are completely different but equally as good and, both have a nice surprise at the end.
     Bruce Willis plays a guy called David Dunn who is involved in a train accident and
is the only survivor. He doesn't seem to think that this is anything odd but he begins
to learn that he is quite a special guy after he meets Elijah Price who makes him realise
the special gift he has. This special gift is that he can't get injured. This is the complete
opposite of Price who suffers from brittle bones and has had 54 breaks in his life.
     M. Night Shyamalan, as he did with Sixth Sense wrote and directed the movie and in
this one he uses the comic book formula of heroes and villans who each posess special
powers and he uses this theme in a modern day, real life context.
     I can't really say much more about it without giving away the ending. Most of the film
is about Willis coming to terms with his condition (he can see things as well but I don't
know whether he is looking into the future or past or present or whatever. It's some kind of
telepathy that he is supposed to have anyway.) He also uses his powers but just the once to
save two kids from a bloke that broke into their house and killed their parents.
     If it had been as long as Sixth Sense was it would have gotten very tedious because there
wasn't as much to get out of the story but thankfully it was relatively short and thus was
watchable.