The acting was slow, soft spoken, and naive, yet very fitting for the film's quality and mental thrill. Bruce Willis and Robin Wright Penn have great chemistry and act very beautifully together. The Easter egg to the cast, however, proved to be the young Spencer Treat Clark. Cast as the overwhelmed young son of Willis and Penn's characters, Clark delivers an impressive performance. This film is a mental adventure. Watching it stirs your mind very thoroughly. I find this genre extremely enjoyable. It is rapidly becoming my favorite film style. Unbreakable is a story of a troubled man named David who is involved in the catastrophic train crash in which he is the only survivor. That in itself isn't the most incredible bit. He walked from the wreckage without a scratch. Directly after the accident, David is contacted by the mysterious Elijah Price, a seller of rare comic book art. Price suffers from a rare condition of brittle bones, and theorizes that David may be his opposite, a super human man who cannot be hurt. 

David brushes the entire idea off as a scam, but then begins to rethink things after he makes some startling discoveries about himself. Rated PG-13 for violence and frightening scenes, most of the violence and other questionable content in this film is much more implied than seen. The stage is set, the intensity grows, and the scene ends, but you know what happens next. These scenes are all very spooky-frightening, and are not suitable for children. Sex and language are both mild. One questionable sexual remark is made, and David's wife asks him if he has been unfaithful.

Language is very low, with only one scatological reference and a single anatomical reference. There are extreme abuses of God's name -- at least five of Jesus. A man is attacked and presumably killed. We see a person with a large bruise on their face. A person's wrists are a bit bloody from being tied up. A man falls and hurts himself badly. A gun is held to a man. A girl has passed out on a bed, and a boy watches her for a second, then closes the door to the room, implying that he does something bad to her. Unbreakable's objectionable content is relatively low, but I do not recommend that you take children to this film. It is much too scary. One touchy scene concerning a child with a gun is also a big reason to enforce the rating for people over 13. It's a masterfully made suspense thriller. I enjoyed it very much. Full of thrill and fright, and with unforeseen twists, this film is one that you will not forget. I highly recommend Unbreakable to teens and adults.

Viewer Comments: 

Charity Bishop

I don't have as high of praise for the film as Dallas does. I rented Unbreakable because everyone was bothering me with it and was not overly impressed. The premise is interesting and the plot line excitable... except it looses momentum after the first five minutes and then crawls toward a climax that is long overdue. Only people with extreme patience will like the film, because the characters are all so banal, as are the backgrounds, the dialogue -- what dialogue there is, anyway -- and the monotone. The one thing of praise I do have for the director is the twist ending (totally unexpected). Of course my opinion differs from that of ALL my friends, so I have to be honest and say that since there isn't a lot of content (aside from some jarring abuses of Jesus' name that really got on my nerves), really the only way to find out whether or not you'll like it is to try it for yourself.