Bruce Willis, Charlayne Woodard, Eamonn Walker

A suspense thriller with supernatural overtones that revolves around a man who learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.

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PG-13, 107 min.

Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan

Release Date: November 22, 2000

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DVD Release Date: June 26, 2001

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  • September 22, 2009
    Quintessentially this is a contemporary superhero movie, and a damn good one at that! Probably M. Night Shyamalan's best film to date.
  • August 28, 2009
    The real star of this movie was Sam Jackson's hair.
  • December 7, 2008
    I like the slow burn of this. Nice alternate to most Superhero movies.
  • November 13, 2008
    "Are You Ready For The Truth?"

    Actor Bruce Willis and writer/director M. Night Shyamalan reunite after the surprise success of The Sixth Sense for this supernatural thriller. David Dunne (Willis) is taking a train from New York City back home to Philadelphia after a job i...( read more)nterview that didn't go well when his car jumps the tracks and collides with an oncoming engine, with David the only survivor among the 131 passengers on board. Astoundingly, David is not only alive, he hardly seems to have been touched. As David wonders what has happened to him and why he was able to walk away, he encounters a mysterious stranger, Elijah Prince (Samuel L. Jackson), who explains to David that there are a certain number of people who are "unbreakable" -- they have remarkable endurance and courage, a predisposition toward dangerous behavior, and feel invincible but also have strange premonitions of terrible events. Is David "unbreakable"? And if he is, what are the physical and psychological ramifications of this knowledge? Unbreakable also stars Robin Wright-Penn as Audrey, David's wife; the supporting cast includes Spencer Treat Clark and Joey Perillo.

    Review
    At first, a certain element of ennui set in. I thought the movie was going to be slow paced and formulaic at best. However, as the plot developed and the drama began to build, I found myself once again praising M. Night Shyamalan. If you enjoyed The Sixth Sense, this movie will not let you down. Of course it has the episodic twists and the morose undertones that we have felt since Praying with Anger (there is always a modicum of immateriality in all of M. Night's works) but this film also has a sense of excitation that keeps you churning in your seat for more. Samuel L. Jackson plays an entropic hero that is so well cast, he could rival De Niro on any given subject. And of course there is Willis, who plays the part of the eudemonistic spirit who we have loved since Blind Date. Add a bit of Shyamalan magic and you've got a formula for success.

    I would disect this movie bit by bit, but since this movie is so fresh with style and flavor - I'll let you try and understand why I said its "X-men meets Frequency meets The Sixth Sense."
  • November 1, 2008
    Great movie with a twist!
  • November 8, 2009
    An amazing thriller.
    Absolutely love Bruce WIllis and Samuel L. Jackson in it.
    A definite recommendation.
  • November 4, 2009
    one of shyamalan's best, as good as the sixth sense, and surely one of the best movie about superhero, this is an elegant superhero movie, unlike most cheesy superhero movie out there, love it..
  • November 3, 2009
    Un clasico de Shyamalan. Aburrida, pero vale la pena verla.
  • October 29, 2009
    Critics were harsh on this film, but I found it to be a great film that grounds the amazing comic book world into a gritty reality.
  • October 22, 2009
    This is the first Shyamalan movie i've seen and i found it very enjoyable. The main idea behind it in the first place is brilliant, what if Superman was real, he just didn't know that he was Superman, and the incredible directing from Shyamalan takes it from being a run of the mi...( read more)ll, average superhero movie to a journey into a character's life. We meet David, a slightly depressed security guard whose marriage is on the verge of a complete breakdown and whose son is doing everything he can to get his dad's attention and keep his parents together. The opening train sequence is basically the film in a nutshell, managing to show David's growing depression and the fact that his marriage is obviously not working and is a great introduction to the film. There are great slow moments in which we can see deep into the characters themselves and moments which get the heart going a little faster. The fact that David's first fight is against one drunk man who pushes him off the balcony, causing him to almost drown in the pool cover, almost manages to make the whole concept of superheroes a little more believable. The only bad note for the film is the fact that it never quite progresses above a certain level of excitement, a level of excitement which is yearned for throughout the film.

    Defining Scene:
    When the son decides to test his father's strength with his work out gear.

Critic Reviews


June 4, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Thrill-kill plots, cardboard characters and zap-pow editing are not for Shyamalan, who takes his good, thoughtful time to snare audiences in his dark web. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Even if the ending doesn't entirely succeed, it doesn't cheat, and it comes at the end of an uncommonly absorbing movie. full review

January 1, 2000
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Far-fetched and utterly humorless.

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Comments


  • MorpheusOne
    February 29, 2008
    Essentially, this movie sucked! There was a lot of hype surrounding it and it did look good, but it fell flat...

    Haven't seen The Village or The Lady in the Water, but The Sixth Sense is starting to look like a fluke... like, he didn't do a good job directing The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan just got lucky!
  • lauraleaaspin
    May 30, 2007
    this is the best movie of all time with the two best actors in it of all time
  • fricklestix
    April 18, 2007
    wtf is wrong with u lisy?this is a great movie!
  • 8DRT8
    February 4, 2007
    Lisy thats just dum. He also made signs sdo naturaly you must think he hates aliens? He also made the village so he must naturally think that everyone in a village keeps itself seperate from the rest of the world.
    Grow Up.
  • jjanchan
    October 17, 2006
    The first comment posted here is absolutely and totally absurd! Chill out! In no way is M. Night Shyamalan painting all brittle-boned people as terrorists. Wow, how you drew that conclusion boggles me, and the fact that you did convinces me that you are very insecure. I suggest posting logical theories in the future, rather than drivel like that.
  • showbiz101
    August 1, 2006
    what? ... m night hates us all because we break our bones? ... want to take an any stupider, bigger leap in logic than that?
  • lisybabe
    June 11, 2006
    The single most offensive film I have ever seen.

    Loaded with factual and medical inaccuracies (Type IV Osteogenesis Imperfecta is not fatal, just for starters), you have to wonder if any research was done in the making of this movie at all.

    A friend of mine has a theory that M Night Shyamalan looks really bad in Speedo's. He was jealous of the kid at school with Brittle Bones who often got out of swimming due to always having a limb in plaster. This could certainly go some way to explaining why he hates people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta so much.

    And hate us he clearly does, with his big budget, famous cast, thriller that brands us all terrorists or potential terrorists just because we break our bones.

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