Okay, so Bruce Willis has never been sick or hurt.
Samuel L Jackson has spent his entire life both sick and hurt. We don't know just how sick he is. The bone disease is the least of it.
SLJ tells Bruce that he's been reading newspapers about horrific accidents all his life in search of one that has only one survivor. That will be the super hero.
SLJ spends must of the movie in the role of the seer who finds the hero who will save the world. Even says so.
Bruce is ever-so-healthy and can bench 350 or something (we're clearly not talking sup strength here, since very few comic book heroes have trouble with less than 800) and can sense when a person has done something evil. (Anyone think of Spider-Man?)
Drag slowly along the story waiting for Bruce to start doing super hero stuff.
With about 10 minutes left in this VERY grim movie, Bruce finally does his thing, though the crime is not stopped until some people are already dead.
Then M Night Shyamalan does HIS thing:
SLJ sought his "sole survivor" not merely by following the news for fatal massive accidents but by CAUSING them. He has murdered thousands of people just to find that super hero.
This is NOT a comic book movie.
This is another M Night Shyamalan "GOTCHA" making the audience feel like puking at the last moment. The story seems to be not that there's a hero in everyone but that a psychotic mass murderer can turn up just when we were all enjoying a happy ending.
Samuel L Jackson has spent his entire life both sick and hurt. We don't know just how sick he is. The bone disease is the least of it.
SLJ tells Bruce that he's been reading newspapers about horrific accidents all his life in search of one that has only one survivor. That will be the super hero.
SLJ spends must of the movie in the role of the seer who finds the hero who will save the world. Even says so.
Bruce is ever-so-healthy and can bench 350 or something (we're clearly not talking sup strength here, since very few comic book heroes have trouble with less than 800) and can sense when a person has done something evil. (Anyone think of Spider-Man?)
Drag slowly along the story waiting for Bruce to start doing super hero stuff.
With about 10 minutes left in this VERY grim movie, Bruce finally does his thing, though the crime is not stopped until some people are already dead.
Then M Night Shyamalan does HIS thing:
SLJ sought his "sole survivor" not merely by following the news for fatal massive accidents but by CAUSING them. He has murdered thousands of people just to find that super hero.
This is NOT a comic book movie.
This is another M Night Shyamalan "GOTCHA" making the audience feel like puking at the last moment. The story seems to be not that there's a hero in everyone but that a psychotic mass murderer can turn up just when we were all enjoying a happy ending.