10 Famous Movies That Got Away With Half-Assed Plots

4. Unbreakable Asks You Buy Into Fairly Unthinkable Odds

When most people think of M. Night Shymalan's best film, they probably think of The Sixth Sense - and yet one could certainly argue that Unbreakable, his follow-up, is a far better movie. Just as is the case with The Sixth Sense, however, Unbreakable has a few half-assed plot strands that people seem to have just forgiven on account of the movie being so enthralling. So the story, in case you're wondering, concerns Bruce Willis as a man named David, who is - for all intents and purposes - invincible. A real life superhero, if you will. The story concerns Samuel L. Jackson's Elijah, a comic book store owner with brittle bone syndrome, who sets out to find the man who is the exact opposite of him. The movie cleverly deconstructs the superhero mythos, and in the end we discover that it has been Elijah's ambition to locate somebody as the superhero to his "villain." To find David, he has incited a number of horrific accidents in order to expose a person incapable of being hurt. And whilst this idea seems rather neat on the first viewing, given the complex nature of the plot, it's a little half-assed. Which is to say, we have to buy into the fact that Elijah could cause so many accidents for so long without getting caught, whilst also buying into the fact that he eventually finds his man - what are the odds, really, that something like that would actually happen, given that David is sort of pinned as being one of a kind? So great as it is, Unbreakable clings far too heavily on the notion of coincidence.