M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable was released at a high-pressure moment for the director. He had just made The Sixth Sense, a movie that became a phenomenon and even earned attention at the Oscars. Unbreakable was released the next year, and was a swerve, to say the least.
Coming out just months after the first X-Men movie hit theaters, Unbreakable follows David (a subdued, wonderful Bruce Willis), a man who survives a train crash and slowly begins to suspect that he has supernatural abilities. As he works to understand his powers and use them for good, he learns more about how his story does and does not align with the conventions of comic books.
