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Shyamalan and Willis do it again!
This movie didn't perform as well in the box office as I would have hoped and for one reason. People that went expecting another Sixth Sense were sorely disappointed. Sure it's the same director and one of the same leads, but it's a completely different movie with a very different fell to it. This is more or less a comic book movie handled very maturely. It is the origin story of a superhero with lots and lots of class. It speaks of Dunn's (Willis) troubled home life with wife Robin Wright Penn and son, and how a man (Samuel L. Jackson) changes everything. See, Dunn survives a train wreck in which every other passenger dies and Jackson, who has a rare disease known as Osteogenesis imperfecta which makes his bones very brittle, seeks him out, sensing that something sets Dunn apart. This is a very clever, well written thriller with one of Willis' best performances to date. The pace of the movie is slow, methodical and deliberate, which might bore some audiences, but I found it to be incredible. There is a twist at the end for those who were a fan the Sixth Sense, but this movie is more than an ending, it is a brilliantly crafted character story, handled with maturity and grace, a far step from any comic book movie ever released. Two thumbs up for the movie. The DVD, in a two disc presentation, is pretty solid. The anamorphic widescreen transfer is strong and the sound quality is great. The DVDs are also filled with special features, including a documentary with cast and crew, deleted scenes introduced by Shyamalan, and a documentary on comics and superheroes hosted by Jackson and a multi-angle feature on the ending of the movie. The lack of a commentary by the director or lead actors hurts the overall rating, but still, this DVD is a worthwhile purchase on the merits of the movie alone, the features are just a great bonus.

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Not Expecting To Be As Good As 6th Sense & Liked Even Better
I'm not usually a Bruce Willis fan by any means. I've read though that whenever he had to audition for a role, early in his career, he literally blew hundreds of other actors out of the water with his audition. I can believe he has that much talent based on this film and a few of his others. Here you can see it with an end scene he has, with the boy who plays his son in this movie, when he shares a newspaper article with him at the breakfast table. It is good to see Willis recently not wasting such talent on abysmal films. I've also been greatly disappointed by the junk movies Samuel L. Jackson has been in lately when his early roles showed such consummate ability. Thus, both actors took me by considerable surprise playing the mirror images of one another in this film, starting with Willis's character's being the sole survivor of a train wreck. Willis is all but unbreakable, like a superhero in a comic book, as he comes to discover with Jackson's help, whereas Jackson's bones break so easily he was called "Mr. Glass" as a kid. Jackson now runs an art gallery which features comic book art. Willis's character does not yet know his role in the universe whereas Jackson's seems to know the roles for both of them. Willis resists his theories mightily though. Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan also made "Sixth Sense" and I must credit him for having a wonderful imagination that doesn't just recycle and reuse Hollywood ideas already overused. He also can make a gripping film without using explosions, car crashes, gunfire, blood and guts and the other, more usual action-adventure props. Shyamalan is fascinated by comic books as both art form and myth maker and brings that fascination home to us. Robin Wright Penn and Spencer Treat Clark play Willis's wife and son. Shyamalan is very good at handling child actors in his films and Clark adds a lot to the story line with his belief in his father's powers. Robin Wright Penn is fast becoming the solid character actress upon whom directors can really rely. They probably picked up on that fact from her husband's (Sean Penn) using her in his films to marvelous effect.

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Interesting Premise But
It's just too slow and lugubrious. All the scenes are dark and depressing. I felt like asking someone to turn on the lights! Fine acting, cinematography and all that, but I'm really not a big fan of comic books, and especially not of movies made about comic books. If I had known that this movie was a comic book story I would have never rented it. If you like comic books, you'll probably love it.