Every M. Night Shyamalan Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

Though it had the unfortunate task of following up Shyamalan's most acclaimed movie and therefore invited a tidal wave of unfair expectations, Unbreakable is on its own merits a shockingly ahead-of-its-time superhero movie.

Ambitiously reinventing the still-prevalent superhero formula, Unbreakable is perhaps cinema's most persuasive attempt at a "realistic" superhero film, focused less on CGI-assisted action than digging deep into the human emotions felt by a man with superhuman abilities.

Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson are both terrific in what's perhaps the most passionately championed film in Shyamalan's entire filmography, such that even Quentin Tarantino of all people dubbed it a "masterpiece."

It's held up spectacularly well over two decades, and as superhero movies become bigger and more expensive with each passing year, its restrained approach feels all the more admirably defiant.