Superhero movie origin story and without knowing it.

Rating: 9/10 (24 June 2016)

M. Night Shyamalan has become one of the most hated directors and writers in modern movie history and I am agree with that. For equilibrium sake he took Avatar and took out everything that made the series so good, also After Earth and Happening .Yes, as it seems apart from Wayward Pines in which luckily he has the secondary role of executive producer ,his career has gone down hill ,but in the turn of the century and early two thousands he made some very good films , like my personal best Unbreakable.
The film came out in 2000 just when superhero flick were making a come back after Batman and Robin (muxc) and Steel and unfortunately was overlooked by critics, although went very well to the box office. To the story, it centers between two characters, David (Bruce Willis) who after an accident ,from which he is the only survivor and he hasn't even a scats(!) starts investigating why that happened and he meets Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) an artist opposed with comic books, who insist that Dave is a superhero.
We see the dynamic among those persons be extended to David family and the fall out come after ,bonus Robin Wright and Spencer Treat Clark who played respectively the wife and son of David are fantastic and I was surprised more with Clark who was only thirteen years old back then. His performance is only shadowed by Samuel L. Jackson, who as usually steals the show not with extreme action and awesome quotes but by been so grounded and calm that at times you think that his bones are indeed so fragile as he say.
If this flick came out today everyone would loved it and it would be praised for its originality and realistic tone. But sadly it saw the light of day the period before X-men and Spiderman when the audience had lost faith to the capes and cowls. One more fact that the critics did not speak for it, was that its ending (twist of course we talk about Shymalan here) lack the impacted of the Six Sense and immediately the shoot it for that, even though in the story fits like a glove.
So go see it if you have not already, if you are comic geek like me then you will praise it after words.