A Worthy Follow-up ****

Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan struck pay-dirt with the highly entertaining and incredibly creepy, The Sixth Sense, and his follow-up film, Unbreakable, is another wonderfully crafted story that waits until the last minute of the film to fully reveal itself.

And while it doesn't deliver the chills that The Sixth Sense did, Unbreakable is just as thought provoking and it will also surprise you with an ending that is definitely worth the wait.

Surprise endings seem to come easily to Shyamalan and while this one is not as shocking as in The Sixth Sense, it does tie the story together nicely.

Bruce Willis is the focus point of this film, having played second fiddle to Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, and he shines in the role of David Dunne, the lone survivor of a train crash who soon begins to believe that he may be impervious to injury.

Helping fuel that belief is a disabled comic book fanatic, Elijah Price (played by the always enjoyable Samuel L. Jackson), who thinks that Dunne may just be the person who he has spent his lifetime searching for -- someone who is unbreakable.

The film is visually almost identical to The Sixth Sense, with Shyamalan using a lot of odd (and sometimes jerky) camera positions to add a darkness to the film.  Being set on the hauntingly beautiful streets of Philadelphia also adds to the film's atmosphere.

Indeed, it is probably the look of this movie that makes it so appealing.  The whole atmosphere of the film completely sucks you in and its story is perfectly paced whilst building towards the excellent finale.

It was definitely an advantage to go into the movie not knowing too much about the storyline and if you plan on going too see this film I advise you to go into it with as little knowledge of the storyline as possible.  It will definitely increase your enjoyment of the film.

As such, It is hard to say anymore without giving away too much, but the most important thing to know is that Unbreakable is an wonderfully constructed movie and it is well worth a view.

Let us hope (and by us I mean me) that Shyamalan dispenses with the "twist" ending for his next film --  it will make the task of reviewing it a lot simpler.

- Adam Matthews