Unbreakable shows Shyamalan as a rapidly maturing filmmaker, taking risks and making them pay off.. Thrill-kill plots, cardboard characters and zap-pow editing are not for Shyamalan, who takes his good, thoughtful time to snare audiences in his dark web.. Unbreakable is a film that begins with a train wreck and then, figuratively speaking, becomes one.. The presence of pop culture refs via comics makes quite notable the absence of any humor or sense of fun, just as it makes its pretentions to de...