2000 / TV
SF elements
super powers
Review
![[Dunn]](dunn.jpg "[Dunn]")
Like
the earlier film from director M Night Shyamalan,
The
Sixth Sense
, this is very slow and measured, with an almost
motionless performance by Bruce Willis. Here he plays David Dunn, sole
survivor of an horrific train crash. Not only sole survivor, but
completely unscathed. He is contacted by comic book aficionado and
fragile-boned Elijah Price [Samuel L Jackson], who claims he is an "unbreakable",
and should use his powers. The film is essentially about how Dunn
slowly,
![[Elijah Price buys a comic]](price.jpg "[Elijah Price buys a comic]")
oh
so very slowly, comes to believe Price.
There are some good set pieces. And like The Sixth Sense , there is a marvelous twist in the tail, which I again didn't see coming, although in hindsight it was telegraphed throughout the film -- the best kind of twist! But here the slow pace tends rather more to the catatonic than to the dreamy. So, worth watching, but not quite as good as its predecessor.
Rating: 3
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth watching | mind candy | waste of time | unfinishable ]