Broken

Unbreakable (2000)

Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson star in M. Night Shyamalan's follow up to the massive hit The Sixth Sense (1999). After being the lone survivor of a train crash a security guard comes to find he may be a super hero.

This film is a real departure in tone and point of view from the usual super hero film and that certainly makes it stand out against what has become a crowded genre but the problem is that it feels like a half finished film. While the majority of the film is the protagonist on the his path to discovering who he is and what he can do an antagonists is only revealed and dealt with in the same scene in the last 5 minutes. As an exercise in direction, tone and style this is a decent film but really the plot could have done with more meat on it's bones and that critically hamstrings the film.

3/5