Finally, a real-life super-hero

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2001)

Without a shadow of a doubt, this is THE forgotten movie of the 2000's Academy Awards night. It's quite unfair to compare this picture with the previous « The Sixth Sense ». Both confirm Shyamalan as a talented screenwriter and director. The plot of this film is far from being vulgar: a Security man (played by Bruce Willis who will never be a versatile actor) escapes unharmful from a train accident. After finding out he's the only survivor of the accident,he will be snatched away from reality by an Alter-Ego (played masterly by Samuel L. Jackson)who believes that Willis has what it takes to be a real-life hero. The final scene is breathtaking, but Shyalaman could have passed on the superflous subtitles that describe what happened after this final scene. Conclusion: it's a masterpiece of the Contemporany movies and Jackson is (after so many flops)as great as he was on «Pulp Fiction».