Unbreakable [2000]

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Year:	2000
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.4 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	12 Have Seen


Director	M. Night Shyamalan
Selected Cast	Bruce Willis as David Dunn
	Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price
	Robin Wright Penn as Audrey Dunn
	Spencer Treat Clark as Joseph Dunn
Producer	Barry Mendel
	Sam Mercer
	M. Night Shyamalan
Writer	M. Night Shyamalan
Soundtrack	James Newton Howard

Notes

Spanish title: El Protegido

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Unbreakable [2000] - Touchstone - USA (2001)

DVD Box Set

Unbreakable [2000] - Touchstone - UK (2000)

Multi-Format

Unbreakable [2000] - Buena Vista - USA (2021)

Blu-ray

Unbreakable [2000] - Buena Vista - Netherlands (2008)

DVD

O Protegido - Lusomundo - Portugal (2001)

Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 🍰 21st Nov 2023		Rated 10/10 The best superhero movie ever made. ...Bar none. This is how you do it, and this is what superheroes and their movies are supposed to do for their audience: Evoke the basic feeling of the truly wonderous, within the everyday, in such a way as to allow the viewer to feel that such things are within the bounds of the possible, and so inspire them at the deepest level. Mmmmmm... Night's genius in this regard is to realise that in order to do this, you've got to pull this kind of movie, and the characters down, out of the clouds, allow the physics of it to be close enough to reality that the audience is willing to stetch their suspension of disbelief out to meet you half way. And then, strip away the fantastical, convoluted, plots that plague more recent cinema superheroes, as well as the primary coloured spandex costumery... Show us the man... ...The man burdened with extraordinary circumstance, and how he struggles to make sense of it, and already you have the essence of the movie - the drama, the plot, and the wider story taken care of, in a way that allows the audience to sympathise, empathise, even with his exceptional abilities. Being so lean, and focused, and with the story, along with cinematography, score, performances and direction conspiring to make the everyday grandiose, epic, and significant, while at the same time being the most intimate, personal portrayal, we can believe in the dash of the extraordinary in that everyday as we really want to, until the finale, where we are given that moment of relief of the tension created in the drama in a thoroughly transcendent, euphoric release. Because it is this very feeling that you evoke in the audience is why they go to the cinema to see superhero movies, and when they work, the feeling that the film-makers tap into successfully, and when they don't, because they have gotten too far away from it, and concentrated too much on the superficial - the dazzle, the CGI, the excessive plotting and knots they tie themselves in to desperately try to sell the ever more unbelievable physics, and fantastical nature of what is shown. Stripped down to bare wood, this is the purest portrayal of a superhero you will ever see, an ordinary man who is struggling to reconcile himself to the fact he might not be so ordinary after all. And it's got all the feeling. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 10th Aug 2020



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zabadak 8th Jul 2015		One of the first films I saw with my squeeze, if not the first :happy:

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Vinyl Album

James Newton Howard - Unbreakable - Waxwork - USA (2020)

Soundtrack LP

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