I liked the movie more than I thought I would. It had great performances and the story was fairly solid. The only bad thing about this movie was the ending, it literally came out of nowhere.
Now, I was pretty skeptical about the whole "it's just a delusion"-thing, and they really sold it to me for a while. Then they revealed that it isn't a delusion, that it's actually real. But then, out of nowhere, it is revealed that a secret organization wants these three super-humans dead and that the doctor was in on it.
There were no hints during the movie that that would be the case, so the movie fails at subverting expectations. Here's how they could've hinted the reveal without revealing anything of substance: The doctor and David Dunn are talking in Dunn's room, the doctor knows Dunn can see visions if he touches someone, she tests him. The doctor hold out her hand and David touches her hand, he sees visions of the restaurant where the secret organization seem to meet. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Rather than it feeling like a huge reveal, you're feeling like it didn't make sense at all. Don't get me wrong, I don't like hints that tell you where the story is obviously going. I want hints that tell you nothing, that makes you wonder what that was all about. There was nothing like that. It all came out of nowhere, that's what I didn't like and that's what brought down the rating to a 7/10.
Now, I was pretty skeptical about the whole "it's just a delusion"-thing, and they really sold it to me for a while. Then they revealed that it isn't a delusion, that it's actually real. But then, out of nowhere, it is revealed that a secret organization wants these three super-humans dead and that the doctor was in on it.
There were no hints during the movie that that would be the case, so the movie fails at subverting expectations. Here's how they could've hinted the reveal without revealing anything of substance: The doctor and David Dunn are talking in Dunn's room, the doctor knows Dunn can see visions if he touches someone, she tests him. The doctor hold out her hand and David touches her hand, he sees visions of the restaurant where the secret organization seem to meet. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Rather than it feeling like a huge reveal, you're feeling like it didn't make sense at all. Don't get me wrong, I don't like hints that tell you where the story is obviously going. I want hints that tell you nothing, that makes you wonder what that was all about. There was nothing like that. It all came out of nowhere, that's what I didn't like and that's what brought down the rating to a 7/10.