UNBREAKABLE
DIRECTOR: M NIGHT SHYAMALAN
CAST: BRUCE WILLIS DAVID DUNN
SAMUEL L JACKSON ELIJAH PRICE
ROBIN WRIGHT PENN AUDREY DUNN
THE STORY
David
Dunn is a Philadelphia security guard who is experiencing marital difficulties.
Returning
from a job interview in New York, the train that he is travelling on crashes.
Everyone travelling on the train dies except Dunn who is
not only the sole survivor
but who also doesn’t have a single scratch to show for his lucky escape.
In
the days following the crash, Dunn receives a cryptic note asking, “when was
he last sick”?
Dunn
traces the note to a comic collector’s store run by Elijah Price.
Price
tells Dunn that he believes Dunn to be a kind of superhero, stating that he
(Price) has a condition which causes his bones to break very easily and
therefore through Karma whereby everything has a polar opposite there must be
someone who’s’ bones don’t break.
Dispelling
this theory as a joke, Dunn carries on with his normal life yet Price is unable
to let the matter lie and continues to try and convince him of his abilities.
Eventually,
Dunn starts to believe Price’s theories and decides to find out whether or not
he is unbreakable!
THE MOVIE
If
you’re a fan of superheroes, be they in comic books or movies you will really
enjoy Unbreakable. Watching Unbreakable, it is like you are experiencing the
birth of a superhero. This film is awesome.
The
performances by Willis and Jackson are fantastic with Willis especially
displaying a range of emotions which people probably wouldn’t believe he could
pull off.
Robin
Wright Penn provides good support as Audrey and both she and Willis act like a
couple experiencing marital problems.
The
directing by Shyamalan is very good, even better than his direction in the Sixth
Sense. He keeps the film burning away slowly for a very long time and just lets
the story take you along.
The
music by James Newton Howard is very good indeed and the hero theme is just a
very powerful number.
THE DVD
This
DVD was the R1 2 Disc Vista series version containing the film on disc one and
the extra features on disc 2.
The
film contained both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 tracks and the sound is very good,
although, the picture is only better than average.
Disc
2 contains deleted scenes, behind the scenes, storyboards, a very early
Shyamalan film clip and a fascinating documentary titled Comic Books and
Superheroes.
The
Vista series is meant to be a defining version but with no commentary track and
no promotional materials I certainly think that Buena Vista could do better as
the Miramax Collectors’ Series of the Sixth Sense appeared to contain more on
a single disc.
A
great film, which could have contained just a little more to make it a fantastic
2 disc set.