Reviews

This was a decent enough movie. At times, the camera work was overly jittery for my tastes. The story was a bit confusing at times, but came together alright. The action sequences were quite well done. My biggest beef is that I wanted to see more Salma Hayek from this film, and she was featured prominently in promos, so I was disappointed in her limited camera time. Overall, a good guy movie.

This movie stunk. While beautifully shot, and presumably historically accurate, the dialogue was too painful to tolerate. Nobody in this movie ever made a statement, they inevitably delivered a speech or soliloquoy.

On top of this some of the action was just too pretentious. For example: A family in a sitting room with two soldier sons standing listening to one daughter play piano while the mother and other two daughters sewed a flag. At the instant the last note was played, the last stitch in the flag was completed, and as it was reverently folded, the mother delivered a eloquent, long, stirring, impromptu speech on her sons going off to war.

There was also the bizarre behaviour of General Jackson, who upon telling his wife he is off to war & will miss her terribly says 'Before I go, I want to read a verse from the Bible with you'.?????????? (I expect most husbands would want to do something else with their wife) He also greets a captain by telling him what a fine-looking hat he has. Then later after another exchange of speeches, he tells the aide beside him that the man he just spoke to '..may be the best-dressed soldier in this army' If nothing else, apparently Jackson had a keen fashion sense.

People began walking out of the theater at about the 20 minute mark. I lasted for about 1 hour. If you are a civil war buff, the story itself may hold your interest, but I can't imagine anyone withstanding the ordeal of listening to grandiose speeches for the nearly 4 hours that this movie runs.

Surely there must be some better use for 4 hours of your life than this movie.

This was a quite brutal movie. There were huge implausibilities, and a silly script, bad acting, etc.

The only reason to watch this movie is that from time to time some quite impressive sets of breasts were exposed.

For years I had heard about this movie and how erotic it is, and in particular about the fridge scene. We finally rented it, and I nodded of a few times (in the early evening). It was a boring movie, with no apparent point to the story. The plot went nowhere, and the sexy scenes weren't especially. As for the fridge scene - YAWN.

I'm glad I didn't spend money to see this movie. It was generally ridiculous, the action sequences were implausible, and the plot didn't make much sense. I know that the TV series had some of the same shortcomings, but it was free, and at least the jiggle/sex appeal quotient was higher. None of these angels could hold a candle to the originals. Overall, my assessment of this movie is the punchline to a joke about Mickey Mouse divorcing Minnie: "was f...ing Goofy".

Great story. Strong acting. Amazing fight scenes. Stunning visuals. Unforgettable movie. Must be unbelievable for those not relying on the subtitles to follow it.

I thought that the 6th Sense was the best movie I had seen in a long time, so I made a point of seeing Unbreakable on opening night. While the two movies had some similarities, Unbreakable is a different type of movie from its predecessor, and perhaps suffered from my expectations being so high.

99% of the movie I would rate as being good to outstanding, however the last minute of the movie killed it for me. After revealing the surprise ending, which was almost as satisfying as that of the 6th Sense, the movie closed with two sentences shown as titles on the screen telling us what happened next.

First of all, I think this technique is more effective in comedy, such as the end of Animal House (although sometimes even these fall flat), or in movies based on a true story, Music of the Heart being a recent example.

Secondly, and more importantly, the explanation these titles gave for Unbreakable were unbelievably trite and anti-climatic compared to how strong the story for the rest of the movie was.

If Shamalayan could have come up with a better way to close the movie, I would have given it a 9 or 10 rating. As it is, I think I am being generous to give it a 7.

This is a movie with enough romance to be a chick movie (sorry, no tears though); but enough good laughs for guys to enjoy too. A sure-fire winner for a date movie. No sex, minimal profanity, no serious violence. Just good clean fun.