Are you ready for the truth? This movie SUCKS!

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2000)

This movie takes over two hours to tell a story that could have been told in 7 1/2 minutes. It's BORING. BORING! I am a fan of all those French art films where absolutely nothing happens, but I guess the SUBJECT MATTER is a so much more interesting, and significant, in those movies. Why expend so much energy concentrating on character development when what you're left with at the end is SO MONUMENTALLY INSIGNIFICANT? this entire movie basically amounts to the fantasy of an overgrown boy (Shyamalan) who seems to think that comic books are in some way IMPORTANT. You know, I wish someone would give me millions of dollars to turn my adolescent enthusiams into feature films, but even then I might try to make something that might have some MEANING to someone other than myself. Never before have I wanted to scream out in a theater: "This is BORING!"
God, that INTERMINABLE sequence of Bruce lifting weights!!!
If I had to sum up this movie in one word, that word would be "Bunk." If I had to sum it up in two words, those words would be "Self-Indulgent." The payoff is just not worth the two hours of your life you will expend waiting for it. The fact that so many people seem to think this story is filled with such deep philosophical meaning truly frightens me. There is Style here, yes, but the substance is just SO INSIGNIFICANT. If Shymalan was really so desperate to make this "statement," he should have made it and shown it to his closest friends, thus sparing the public.
If you really find comic books so absolutely filled with untold insights that illuminate the complexities of the human condition, I suggest you attempt to work your way up to "Books." You can start with Harry Potter. In the meantime, however, here's a movie just for you. It's essentially an overintellectualized version of "X-Men." Or "The Phantom." Or "Supergirl."
If, on the other hand, you think that comic books might be an amusing diversion only in the case that you were rendered parapalegic and could only read that, or an issue of Popular Mechanics from 1962, or if you are capable of reading books in which there are not pictures, you might get a lot more intellectual satisfaction out of watching "Charlie's Angels."

This movie is like a large, elaborately wrapped present containing a single peanut.
Which is not to mention that it is basically the same story as 6th Sense: "Oh, I've got powers, and I must use them for good."
Now lie down and press your fingers hard against your eyeballs. You will see a bunch of colors and stars. That show is a) ten times as exciting, b) twenty times as significant, and c) much cheaper than seeing this movie.

Have I made myself clear?