Realistic (or Boring?)

Rating: 7/10 (18 September 2018)

I have two viewings experiences of this movie.
One is the literal superhero origin movie. As that, I have to say, I was bored. I'm all for realistic and gritty movies. I LOVE THAT. But Bruce Willis just bores me. His insistence on denying the use of his abilities was understandable, yet repetetive and boring. The final twist makes it better and overall it would be normal a mediocre, even if interesting, movie.
But the other viewing experience is the interpretation I gave to what I was watching, while I was a bit bored with it.
It is quite similar to the story from "The Incredibles". Bruce Willis' character left his desires, his dreams, for love. And he has regretted it since.
He choosed "family" over the individual (himself). He choosed family over his own goals and was dissatisfied with his life years later, which made him and his family unhappy and at the brink of self destruction (well, divorce, I mean). I can go on, but that's basically the metaphor. A man unhappy by the fact that he let what made him a man (the use of his god given abilities) apart, to have a more complacent life that looked great when younger, getting stomped by his wife (the symbolic reason to suppress his abilities, emasculation), his boss in a terrible job (wasting his potential), and his son (that thinks he's a coward for not wanting to accept and use his powers). I could go on... But it has similarities with The Incredibles.
That's my interpretation of the movie and in that character study interpretion, I think it is really good although still a bit boring (slightly less important giving the substance).