Spectacular story, great details, exceptional movie

Rating: 9/10 (19 October 2004)

** HERE BE SPOILERS **
David Dunn (Willis) is involved in a train accident. Everyone (in his car) is killed but Dunn, who survives totally unharmed. After being released by the hospital and attending the memorial service he is approached by Elijah Price (Jackson). Price is born with a genetic disease that make his bones extremely fragile, which has lead to numerous breaks and hospital visits. Price wants to know if Dunn has ever been sick. Dunn is perplexed, neither he, or his wife Audrey (Wright Penn), the other part of his failing marriage, has any recollection of Dunn ever being sick. Price has a theory, that if he is so fragile, somewhere out there is someone who is unbreakable, a sort of hero. Like the comic superheroes who are much of Price's life. David and Audrey think he is crazy, but Price is persistent, and then there are some curious facts that undoubtedly points in the direction of Price's theory.
This is a great movie. In the bottom, as the base of the movie, is a great story. Shyamalan, who has written and directed, has made a very good job indeed with the story. It has no flaws and is full of details that Shyamalan brings forward by using cinematic tricks and strategies. In addition the cast is very good. Willis and Jackson are giving a great performance, and so are Wright Penn and Clark (as David and Audrey's son Joseph). There is no flaw anywhere. As mentioned, full of details, the story slowly evolves not really giving much clues in which direction it is about to take of, which gives the audience lots of time to guess and think about events. In this way, a kind of suspense is built up. At the same time it is enjoying just watching the effort everybody puts in into the movie. And then one never knows where Shyamalan takes the story... Great!
9/10