Unbreakable

Unbreakable is somewhat reminiscent of Peter Weir's "Fearless", for in both films a man miraculously survives an accident while everyone else dies.

To everyone's surprise, the protagonist David Dunn survives a catastrophic train crash without so much as a scratch. Shortly afterwards he is approached by Elijah Price, who tells him that he goes by the nickname Mr. Glass. His bones break at the slightest provocation. Elijah has a theory that David is his opposite, and he sees in David a parallel to the classic superheroes of the comics he collects.

It is fine as far as it goes that the hero is invulnerable, but it is harder to relate to the fact that he is also able to see whether people have committed or will commit crimes. From this point the story simply becomes too mysterious and implausible for you to engage with its protagonists.

Unbreakable is M. Night Shyamalan's disappointing follow-up to the hit "The Sixth Sense". The director can still create quite special moods, and he has mastered the art of blending realism and symbolism, but in the long run it becomes too messianic and heavy with symbolism. The result is that the story comes very close to being unintentionally comic.