Great plot and dialogue.

Rating: 6/10 (2 February 2005)

This will completely spoil it if you haven't seen it.
I thought this was a fantastic, almost profound movie. Obviously better than the Sixth Sense in a thematic sense but Sixth Sense was more water tight if you scrutinise scene by scene performances.
The use of comic heroes and villains, about fate, about finding your own spot in life is gold!! In some ways, both characters are still children finding a meaning in life and a way for the future. The twist was a surprise for me. I commend those who saw it coming "a mile away" (maybe explainable by the fact that you missed the depth in the dialogues relating to comic books and fate). The clincher scene for me is when Samuel L Jackon's character is in a comic book store, reading a comic, and the store keeper is trying to close the shop, and Samuel L Jackson, having just talked about the fate of comic book characters, in trying to wheel himself out of the store accidentally bumps his broken leg into one of the aisles, demonstrating the very fate, he was just talking about.
If I don't give this movie a perfect 10, it would be because: (a) the movie didn't milk the themes further; (b) the few scenes where Bruce Willis' character discovers with his son that he really is superhuman. I didn't quite understand or like how his abilities transform from being "unbreakable" to him being super strong (ie the gym scene). It makes it unrealistic, when everything else is realistic. One should be able to work out that they have superhuman strength but one won't be able to point to accidents in his life and say well that shows I am unbreakable or my fate is that I can never get injured.