M. Night's best movie

Rating: 8/10 (11 June 2009)

Probably M. Night Shalalaman's best movie, though that isn't saying much, but yes this movie was great. I love the subtle way David Dunn's character is slowly built up and how Elijah basically mirrors him in almost every way; it's a very clever play of the fundamentals set-up by comic books but given a healthy dose of reality and believability with the beginning of American life as a boy and the boy's belief that heroes and villains exist, to a demonstration of how the extreme take on heroes and villains in a comic book is mimicked sometimes perfectly in our modern society. More than anything, it did what Heroes wasn't able to do many years later: transpose superheroes into a believable real world setting.
The movie also demonstrates M. Night's ability to use the camera to tell the story; there's a lot of imaginative and creative shots through the whole film (I absolutely love the film's opening with the little girls perspective watching Bruce Willis fumble his way through hitting on the female passenger). I also loved the way the shadows of his rain poncho on his face made it look like he was wearing a superhero mask.
My only problem with the movie was the ending; it could have been so much better had it just ended with Bruce's look of shock, and Jackson saying "they call me Mr. Glass." The text was very unnecessary. My other complaints was that it had a twist that was obvious, seeing as there was nowhere else for the movie to go after two hours and admittedly, the movie is pretty boring after watching it for a third or fourth time due to the crazy lengths of time where no-one is literally doing anything.