Unbreakable. (McCormick's Quick Takes).Unbreakable (Touchstone, 2000). Action hero David Dunn David John Ian Dunn (born December 27, 1979 in Great Harwood, England) is an English footballer who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers as a midfielder. Playing career Blackburn Rovers (Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard series. ) doesn't don a cape or mask in M. Night Shyamalan's low-key reinvention of the superhero su·per·he·ro n. pl. su·per·he·roes A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime. genre because the writer/director of The Sixth Sense provides the suspense in this psychological thriller by focusing on what happens to a very ordinary guy when he discovers he just might have the strength of 10 and an otherworldly mission to protect and serve. Elijah Price (Samuel L Jackson) provides the counterweight coun·ter·weight n. 1. A weight used as a counterbalance. 2. A force or influence equally counteracting another. coun to Willis' recalcitrant disbelief, playing a comic book zealot with his own desperate reasons for needing a superhero. But is Jackson a prophet or madman? *** 1/2 PATRICK MCCORMICK, professor of Christian ethics at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. |
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