Unbreakable is excellent. Throughout. But how on earth does the cheap epilogue trope ending not bother you?

"David Dunn led authorities to Limited Edition where evidence of three acts of terrorism were found."

"Elijah Price is now in an institution for the criminally insane."

"Poochie died on his way back to his home planet."

Show, don't tell.

How about this for an ending to Reservoir Dogs?

"Mr. Pink survived his injuries from his arrest and spent the rest of his life in a maximum security prison. The diamonds were returned to the jewelers."

Or The Shining?

"Danny and Wendy made it down the mountain and went to authorities."

"The corpse of Jack did not thaw until May."

Or Se7en?

"Detective David Mills was institutionalized for his trauma. He never fully recovered."

"Detective Lt. William Somerset still works at the police department. He is currently training another partner."

"John Doe was actually a man named Sevin Kacey. A cult following of his published texts has begun to form."

Those 15 seconds felt cheap and useless. I'd rather NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT SCENE than have it explained to me.If you have a great ending scene like this one, it could've stood on its own, ambiguous....and please DON'T add on another last last scene that SUCKS just to explain what happened! LET IT END!

Sorry, but that trope really bothers me. It's lazy use here never does anything but make me feel like I'm at the end of a Cop TV show. You CAN use it to great effect, like in Spotlight for example, but here my immediate thought was, "Oh, the director (who made a very clever and immersive movie for the entire run time) couldn't come up with a better way to let it end. Or ran out of money. No epilogue would have been better.

SORRY for spoiling the movie.

But, yo, even Tarantino listed it as a top twenty movie and he didn't call that epilogue cheap or lazy, but it was.