The film's startlingly wacky premise belies its deadly serious tone. Shyamalan once again constructs his story with a slow, eerie quietness that builds the atmosphere and never lets the characters break out in a silly grin. This isn't necessarily a bad thing--it allows the film to engulf us completely in its world, catching the moods and slowly unravelling the central mystery along with these two intriguing men. The performances are equally subtle and dark, nicely capturing the confusion of the characters while Shyamalan's artful direction reflects the themes and the drama through a brilliant use of camera angles, colour, film speed, music and so on. Unbreakable isn't a mind-bending grabber like The Sixth Sense, but it's well worth seeing on its own merits. Beautifully well made, intelligent films like this don't come along very often.