2000 · superhero · thriller · drama
Unbreakable
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan1h 46m2000
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.
Our read: Unbreakable (2000) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive superhero · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured superhero / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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