one of the best superhero movies AND stories to date

Rating: 9/10 (21 November 2001)

i admit, the first time i saw this film, i didn't like it. i found it too slow and kept comparing it to the sixth sense because of its obvious parallels. a few weeks later i couldnt get the theme out of my head and from there it kept creeping back into my mind till i finally got to see it again on DVD. from there it jumped from a movie i had dismissed to being my number one film for 2001 (it was released later in australia than 2000) the performances are understated and fascinating and the realistic look at the invasion of superpowers into a normal man's life, a very real man with marital problems and human flaws, is the best rendition of a comic book hero since the creation of spider-man, comic's favourite everyman. i know this film is not to everyone's taste, but the spell it weaves is enthralling to those who remember the long hot summers when a piece of cloth over your shoulders was a cape that could make you soar.