In the year 2000, the whole revolution provoked by Marvel had not yet begun. Blade had been released just two years before, and we would discover the X-Men of Hugh Jackman also at the beginning of the millennium, but until that moment, the most recent effort to present heroes under a more realistic vision had been Batman. It is in this scenario that, under the direction of M. Night Shyamalan, Unbreakable premieres, a film I will talk about today.
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Year: 2000
Category: Superhero, Thriller.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Spencer Treat Clark.
Plot
After a train accident, all passengers die, except David Dunn. Elijah Price, a mysterious man in wheelchairs, raises a strange hypothesis that explains why David survived the accident without damage, but this explanation, if true, could forever change the life of David and his family.
Opinion
I saw the film many years ago and after seeing its sequel, and now with the future release of another one in 2019, I needed to see it again to remember much better what happened in the film.
In the world that the director has created for the development of the entire film, and its future sequels, all people know the comics as we know them in real life. But what would happen if those comics were just an exaggeration of reality? What if there are people with extraordinary abilities who unknowingly have the ability to do great things? Well, that's precisely what the film tells us about.
The Unbreakable is a reconstruction of the myth of the superheroes, as it changes the way they proceed and interact with the goal of making it much more realistic and assimilable to the viewer, similar to Nolan's Batman, but much more. No more hilarious costumes, no villains seeking to destroy or dominate the world. Villains are ordinary people, and heroes are people who need to work like all of us to buy food and pay rent.
From this film was inspired the entire universe of TV shows and movies that had the appearance of superheroes without the need for them to dress with the suits we know: Heroes, Smallville, Push, you could even say that Gotham. It is true, some are very bad, but still represents a change in the cinematographic scenario.
We must also highlight the merit of the actors in the film. Bruce Willis does an excellent job capable of transmitting the necessary melancholy that the character demands. Samuel L. Jackson does a great job, his character prostrate in a wheelchair is very good, and has a very powerful internal motivation. Robin Wright and Spencer Treat Clark do a good job, having a very good scene of which I will not say anything to avoid the spoilers.
It really is one of the best movies in its category. The film is filmed with special attention to detail, the script is solid and the plot very good.
The film is not perfect, but it is very intelligent and does some things very well and others not so much, and although it is true that it is a film a bit modest to cover a plot like that of superheroes, which today are films with huge budgets, the film compensates for the lack of action with its different vision.
Personally I wish the superhero movies had more resemblance to Unbreakable, a little less special effects and more history to tell.
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Score
7/10
The film is recommended, I would put a slightly higher rating, maybe a eight, but I've met people who did not like the film, and they have good points for that, so I recommend it because I personally liked it, However, I can not say that it is a masterpiece, but as a product of entertainment is good, even if it falters at a certain moment.