Dead Zone, remake anyone??

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2000)

Bruce Willis is David Dunn. We first meet David as a guy who has just survived a massive train derailment. Everyone on board was killed except him, and stranger still he survives without a scratch. Dave works as a security guard at a football stadium who seems to know how to pick out all the crud that passes through his domain just by (exscuse the pun) sixth sense. We learn more about him, as he never gets sick, and survived a previous fatal car accident. Is he untouchable??
Samuel Jackson is Elijah Prince who runs a comic book store and discovers about Dave's strange past. He is intrigued because Elijah suffers from a dengerative 'brittle bone' disease, which leaves him feeble and easily prone to injury (as a kid he was teased and called 'Mr. Glass'). In finally meeting David, Elijah tries to find something about David's unique ability and perhaps something about himself..

This movie reminded me a lot of the film 'Dead Zone', with it's psyhic twist and turns. The acting is fine nothing special, groundbreaking or memorable, the characters are not that fascinating, it is a good story. However, the real great work in this film is Shyamalan's directing who has a knack for establishing great mood and ideas with just one simple shot of a camera. I can't go into detail about this movie without giving away to much about the plot, but I did enjoy it. It was pretty entertaining with a little Hitchcock twist at the end (even the director makes a cameo in the film just like Hitch!!).
Not bad. This being Shyamalan's second major film, I think he will start seriously establishing himself as a solid repsected director. Good for him.

Rating 7 out of 10.