Unbreakable gets better year by year, viewing by viewing. M. Night Shyamalan’s follow up to The Sixth Sense is a subtle and patient film, similar in tone if not content to Zodiac, and it is even more underrated. Bruce Willis plays David Dunn, whom we meet on a train traveling from New York to his home in Philadelphia. It derails and crashes, but Dunn is alive—unhurt—the sole survivor. He is approached by Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), a comic book lover who has a rare disease that makes his bones as brittle as glass. Elijah asks him a simple question: when was the last time he was sick? The film is about David’s journey of self-realization, and the story slowly comes together, piece by piece. For all the money The Sixth Sense and Signs made, make no mistake: this is Shyamalan’s best film.
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