A GREAT movie poorly reviewed

Rating: 9/10 (7 August 2008)

At first, I thought this movie was going to be a comedy, it's not. It has lots of very funny moments, but they are the result of a very lonely superhero. I love comedies. To me, funny and revealing of the character, is much better humor than just funny to be amusing.
The plot twist everyone talks about is revealed relatively early, about midway through, and the rest of the story hinges on it. It's nicely foreshadowed and stunning when "the truth comes out." The truth is a doozy and puts everything prior to it into a brand new perspective. The last time I saw movie that did as good of a job at a plot point as this movie was "L.A. Confidential," an admittedly different kind of film.
Would the movie suffer if its producers choose to reveal the plot twist? Actually, I think not. I think the entire marketing campaign should have been based on that revelation. It would have put the movie in a different perspective and rather than critics panning it, they would have embraced it and loved it.
It's truly too bad, because this is a gem of a film. Read the reviews for it carefully... pro and con... think about who the reviewer is and how credible their opinion is to you. Yes, this is a "superhero" movie, but it's more in the vein of the Spiderman movies than it is X-Men. I truly liked this movie and cannot wait for it to come out on DVD so I can enjoy it with family and friends and get their take on it, too.