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88"The Sixth Sense" was no fluke. Unbreakable, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's dazzling reunion with Bruce Willis confirms he's one of the most brilliant filmmakers working today.
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83Somberly fantastic new mystery thriller.
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83An exquisitely crafted film filled with little shocks and deep echoes of humanity. It'll stick with you.
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80It's rare that a a movie leaves you pinned to your seat, wanting to see it again -- right now, this minute -- to work out the pieces of the puzzle. Unbreakable is one of those movies.
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80Willis gives a remarkable, wrenching performance: He is the most fragile indestructible man ever created.
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80Unbreakable shows Shyamalan as a rapidly maturing filmmaker, taking risks and making them pay off.
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80Mr. Shyamalan may be the only mainstream director hankering for success with a need to understate; he is like Shaq without the tattoos. The result is a mastery of craft that may leave some hungry for more.
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80I was hooked from beginning to end.
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80Mesmerizing dark fable, which also contains moments of comedy and action that don't disrupt its oddly earnest tone
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75Even if the ending doesn't entirely succeed, it doesn't cheat, and it comes at the end of an uncommonly absorbing movie.
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The irony is that although Unbreakable is as compellingly watchable, stylish and intriguing as its predecessor, its ending has almost the opposite effect on the overall picture.
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75Ultimately, the film can't help but disappoint. Movies where you're continually waiting for the other shoe to drop are never as much fun as those where you never expected the first one to fall.
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74Seems truncated, incomplete -- mostly because the patented Shyamalan twist is revealed in the dénouement, not the climax.
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70Possesses sufficient intrigue to hook audiences and keep them on board much of the way.
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67Shyamalan's premise is a lulu, to be sure, but if you can manage that precious, tentative suspension of disbelief, you'll find Unbreakable a rewarding meditation on the nature of heroes, both comic book and otherwise.
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63As absorbing as much of it is, Unbreakable winds up as a mild disappointment. But it leaves no question the hype around Shyamalan is well-deserved: This guy has a huge career ahead of him.
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63"Sixth Sense" fans will be intrigued at first, then disappointed.
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63Whatever he (Shyamalan) did, he shouldn't have tried to send the same lightning bolt down to Earth in the same place.
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60The movie feels oddly undercooked and aimless.
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50The story grows sillier as it goes along, culminating in a final switcheroo that's about as deep as the comic-book ideas that inspired the plot.
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50Far-fetched and utterly humorless, with a literally tacked-on conclusion (yes, more text on the screen), the only thing that's surprising about Unbreakable is how lame it is.
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50Even the surprise ending arrives with a thud and makes us wonder why Shyamalan didn't try something new instead of recycling his "Sixth Sense" recipe.
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50Shyamalan's style is so exaggerated, with its long pauses and exacting rhythms of sound- vs.- silence, that it easily can engender eye-rolling and snickers.
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50A film that begins with a train wreck and then, figuratively speaking, becomes one.
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50For its perilous ambitions, Unbreakable has to be admired, but any ending that succeeds only in pulling the rug out from under a credulous, trusting audience has to be laughed at and called out for the extravagant nonsense that it is.
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50Soggy mysticism, nagging inconsistencies, and coarse horror-playbook jolts.
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50It would be foolish to deny that Unbreakable has scenes that make you jump, but without anything resonant to apply that skill to, the film has no option except squandering its technique.
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50This time out, Shyamalan the writer lets Shyamalan the director down badly.
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40A gloomy, preposterous psychological thriller.
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30A big disappointment.
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25A potentially interesting idea deflated by the absurd proclamations of an arch screenplay and smothered under the ponderous gravity of M. Night Shyamalan's dreary direction.
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8i really liked where the plot of this movie went. it gives a realistic approach of typical superhero cliché's.