Sixth Sense didn’t really do all that much for me, it was way over hyped. Yes, it was well made but it just lacked anything to interest me.
Unbreakable however is a pretty damn good movie. I first saw this in the cinema, and I was given the special edition DVD as a birthday present last year. I just never got around to watching it until this afternoon. It just works for me on all levels.
The concept was really well executed, the slow realisation by David Dunn that he has never been ill. The scene in the basement as he works out the awe and indeed fear on his sons face as he backs away as far as possible while his father lifts impossible weights. We don’t need to see anymore than this or to see any further evidence, this makes the point.
The scene in the pool where one moment he is drowning and then as soon as he is helped out of the water he is good to go and get the job done is very well shot. It covers his weakness (water) and then goes on to show his “powers”
Sam Jackson unsurprisingly gives a great performances as Elijah, the fact that the character is so well written can only add to that. The realisation of everything that Elijah is in no way takes away from the character, in fact it adds to him. One of the deleted scenes has Elijah with the line “I’m going to be very very sad if this doesn’t turn out the way I think”. It is a damn shame that was cut, it would have opened Elijah up a little more and given the ending that little more feeling.
One of the other deleted scenes, Elijah as a young kid going on a ride at a fair starts off as this really sweet little scene that suddenly becomes not only hard to watch but painful to watch because you know what is going to happen and that its not going to be good.
If you have not seen it, go and see it. I doubt you’ll regret it.