Absolutely Unbreakable

I really enjoy most Extended Movie Edits. Mostly I enjoy them because I like to decide for myself if the removal of the extra material was warranted or not.

AU Extended Edit while interesting really proves why some scenes must be removed. The long slow progression of this movie is only made looongggger and slllllooooowwwwer by the addition of the deleted scenes. While the slow build up and progression of the story line in the Theatrical release worked, it just barely worked. If the Theatrical Release was any longer or slower I don't believe most of the audience would have stood for for it and it wouldn't have been as popular as it was.

All the extended scenes where removed with cause and justly so. By viewing this edit you can understand why each extra scene was removed.

CBB did an excellent job in Editing the Deleted scenes back into the narrative of the film. This Fan Edit flowed nicely and the only flaw I noticed was the change in film color pallet in some of the deleted scenes.

I had only watched this movie once and that was years ago. I remember thinking that it was too long and too slow.
But then again, I was probably expecting something different.

I watchedt this last night with my son who is now 8 years old.
It isn’t heavy on action and is big on character development in the early going.
I asked my son if he thought it was boring and he said that it wasn’t boring at all.
He was very into the slow build up and mystery of it all.

Obviously, he also had a strong connection with the son, Joseph, in the movie.
I had totally forgot about the whole father/son relationship. Probably because I had watched this before my son was born.
So that was another aspect of the movie that I personally connected to and really enjoyed.

Even though it’s rated PG-13, this surprisingly makes for a great watch with the kids since there isn’t that much violence and I can’t recall any swearing either.

The editing is superb and seamless.
Video and audio is great which is the norm for CBB fanedits.

The only suggestion that I’d make would be to cut the opening text regarding comic books as that seems out of place and/or gives something away too early.

9/10

extended editions are hard to rate for me… does it make a bad movie good? does it make a good movie better?

“absolutely unbreakable” is an easy one, tho. all of these scenes expand on the characters in the film that the audience NEEDS to connect with. the scenes with the priest and the fair are obvious additions that lift this movie up a bit.

it would be interesting to see a true fanedit of absolutely unbreakable – can this be cut down for greater impact?

entertainment 8/10
fanediting 10/10
video 9/10
audio 10/10
original 7/10
fanedit 8/10
presentation 9/10

9/10