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OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh |
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| "An impressive and original bit of storytelling." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
3/5 | "Extremely competent in the hands of its crew." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
| "Unhappily, Unbreakable's codes and moral lines are too familiar and too visible." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
1/4 | "...a labored, shallow exercise in cheap thrills that is more interested in playing with the audience's mind than uncovering a decent, thought-provoking narrative." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
B | "It is especially delightful for those who like puzzlers and think they can gather enough clues to take a stab at
guessing the outcome." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3/4 | "A mostly spellbinding drama that may not be the spectacular achievement of Shyamalan's last film, but why does it -- or should it -- have to be?" |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Dustin Putman |
3/4 | "Dreary though spiritually sound." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
B+ | "Darkly exhilarating." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
6/10 | "It needs structure and it doesn't have it." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
C- | "Most viewers -- especially those swept up by The Sixth Sense -- are likely to find it a grave disappointment." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
4/5 | "Probes the mystery of goodness and the unique heroic powers we all have within ourselves. One of the best films of the year." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "An engaging and intriguing yarn." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/4 | "Although the subject matter is fantastical, Shyamalan keeps it down to earth with moody realism and a refusal to overstate anything." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
9/10 | "A loving ode to everything that a comic book is about, both inside and out." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
0.5/4 | "Awful... an insult to my intelligence." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
| "At times, I found it terrific and effective, but at others, it felt boring and occasionally a bit goofy." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
9/10 | "Manages to successfully slap together a unique mystery, interesting characters, real life situations to which we could all relate and a touch of the paranormal." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
7/10 | "Shyamalan is a brilliant young director; in Unbreakable he may not have a lot to say, but I like the way he says it." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "Little surprises ... brilliantly unfold throughout the film." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3.5/4 | "Los resultados son en muchos aspectos superiores a lo realizado por Shyamalan con anterioridad" |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
2/5 | "Unwatchable" |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4/4 | "It's easily one of the year's best movies." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "It's clearly the work of a young master that gives its audience something to mull over long after they leave the theater." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
8/10 | "Excelente guión. Maravillosa edición, especialmente en el climax de la película." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
2/5 | "A considerable emotional investment in comic book lore is required for that to make this glum, poky picture worth watching through to the final revelation." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
+1 out of -4..+4 | "Bruce Willis gives a careful, measured performance." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
3/4 | "Shyamalan proves he's a solid, capable filmmaker whom we'll be seeing a lot more of in the future." |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
9/10 | "A work of transcendent filmic genius, one that acknowledges the audience's expectations, confounds them, rebuilds them, and ends up using them to brilliant, astonishing advantage." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/4 | "The element of surprise proves to be Unbreakable's greatest virtue, not to mention a quality richer and more elegantly pulled off than it was in Sense." |
| Mr. Brown's Movies |
| Michael Dequina |
3.5/5 | "You have an ordinary enough guy who, during an extraordinary situation, learns that he is somehow blessed with super powers." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
2/5 | "The big surprise ending of Unbreakable is what a disappointment it is." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
4/5 | "A prova definitiva de que O Sexto Sentido não foi um mero golpe de sorte de seu diretor/roteirista." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
4/5 | "Beautifully well made, intelligent films like this don't come along very often." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
4/5 | "Shyamalan takes us in close, picking up sad and angry whispers; his people almost never raise their voices." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B- | "You can't help but admire the craftsmanship, but you also wonder whether there's anything beyond it." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
2.5/4 | "It has some good atmosphere and a nice twist at the end, but the ends of this film, to paraphrase Ambrose Bierce, are too far apart." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "Screenwriter Shyamalan needs to get out more. His script is intelligent, yes, but also self-indulgent." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
9/10 | "Genesis of an unwitting hero." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
4/10 | "A potentially interesting idea deflated by the absurd proclamations of an arch screenplay and smothered under the ponderous gravity of M. Night Shyamalan's dreary direction." |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Sean Axmaker |
3/4 | "a little too pretentious but still good" |
| sbs.is |
| Stefan Birgir Stefansson |
C+ | "Despite my misgivings, I’m glad I saw the film." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
3/10 | "Unadulterated poppycock." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Susan Granger |
7/10 | Read review |
| Film Freak Central |
| Bill Chambers |
2.5/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
| Read review |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
| Read review |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Jonathan F. Richards |
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OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh |
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