Unbreakable (2000)

Release date: 2000-11-22
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Blinding Edge Pictures, Barry Mendel Productions
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction
Rating: 7.3/10
Length: 1h 46min

Storyline

Actor Bruce Willis and writer/director M. Night Shyamalan reunite after the surprise success of The Sixth Sense for this supernatural thriller. David Dunn (Willis) is taking a train from New York City back home to Philadelphia after a job interview that didn't go well when his car jumps the tracks and collides with an oncoming engine, with David the only survivor among the 131 passengers on board. Astoundingly, David is not only alive, he hardly seems to have been touched. As David wonders what has happened to him and why he was able to walk away, he encounters a mysterious stranger, Elijah Prince (Samuel L. Jackson), who explains to David that there are a certain number of people who are "unbreakable" -- they have remarkable endurance and courage, a predisposition toward dangerous behavior, and feel invincible but also have strange premonitions of terrible events. Is David "unbreakable"? And if he is, what are the physical and psychological ramifications of this knowledge?

Plot Keywords

security guard, wife, sick person, janitor, son, suspenseful, offbeat, philadelphia, new york city, stadium, train station, extrasensory perception, insanity, torture, murder, supernatural, quest, transformation, discovery, 2000s

Short Review

"Unbreakable" is likely to stand the test of time as long as stories about superheroes - or heroes in general - are still sought by scared, suffering human beings.