" Everyone in the world should have a purpose, . . . . including me "

Rating: 9/10 (10 October 2008)

If you are ever looking for a afternoon film which contains enough drama to keep you mesmerized, you have got to see this film. The premise of this movie is that people everywhere in the world are going about their busy little lives, trying to fit in. Yet from a more myopic perspective, there are some who believe they are being shunned, decide to prove they do have a purpose. Such is the task of this great director M. Night Shyamalan. He takes an ordinary man, named David Dunn, (Bruce Willis) who believes he is anything but and in events not of his doing begins to reexamine his mysterious existence. The impetus is not his but is initiated by a man called Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson). Dunn is contacted by Price and told he is so important he must have a 'special' purpose, one which his wife has denied but seemingly is so extraordinary, he might be able to stop a bullet. A theory his son, Joseph Dunn (Spencer Treat Clark, superb acting) wants to put to the test. The story becomes intense and like a beautifully crafted comic, creates tension and drama to to point the viewer cannot dare to look away. When the picture continues to it's inevitable climax, adrenaline levels rise to it's peak and one cannot wait to learn the fate of all concern. A sequel is suspected for this fine, soon to become a classic film. ****.