In Unbreakable, contemporary master of suspense M. Night Shyamalan shifts his focus to the comic book movie genre. Bruce Willis stars as David Dunn, a downtrodden security guard with a troubled marriage and a knack for escaping injury and sickness. The yin to his yang is Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price, an art dealer with a rare genetic condition that leaves him susceptible to broken bones from something as little as a misstep. The two are brought together by a horrific accident, and through it and their successive interactions, David learns his true destiny and Elijah’s part in shaping it. Following the huge success of The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan departs somewhat from his thriller genre bread & butter to make what many consider to be his best film and one of the best superhero movies ever made, with nary a computer generated image or spandex costume to be seen.
“Is Superman III basically just a comic take on the same story in M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable? In both stories a superhero is forced to confront two different sides of himself due to a black misfit genius with a world domination plan. Which means Bruce Willis is Superman and Richard Pryor is Mr. Glass.” – Quentin Tarantino
