After M. Night Shyamalan's huge success with The Sixth Sense, winning Academy Awards, and directing an acclaimed film, many people were at the edge of their seats waiting for his next movie. As you know by now, he came out with three other movies after the brilliant Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village, all either mediocre, awful, or just bad. I will examine his second film, the first one after The Sixth Sense, which I've seen a few times, at first when I rented it on DVD when it came out.

It starts off alright, Bruce Willis playing a security guard with family troubles who has just survived a huge train accident and come home to his estranged wife and child. As the movie proceeds, Willis's character is approached by Samuel L. Jackson's character, acted very well by Jackson as always, a frail disabled comic book fan who wants to talk to Willis about his seeming

invulnerability over his life from never being sick, to surviving a major car and train accident. Over a series of "coincidences" Jackson continues meeting with Willis and begins feeding him a different explanation for these things other than luck, that Willis is a sort of super hero perhaps, a human with special abilities.

Although initially skeptical, Willis begins believing it more and more as he realizes his special powers and instincts and sets out to test them out and at the same time, help people. In his experiences, he also gets closer to his wife and son and finds out what his main weakness is.

Although it seemed like M. Night was trying to hard to come up with another surprise ending after the shocker in The Sixth Sense (which may be why there wasn't really one in Signs), and the shock ending isn't even half as surprising and good, it is still a satisfying ending. Spoiler (in white): The ending is quite satisfying, the surprise being that Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson) actually set up many of the “accidents” plaguing the city in a search for a special person, a superhuman, the antithesis to his frailty, his arch-nemesis. It’s very satisfying and cool to see Jackson being hauled off by the police while talking about how he is “Mr. Glass.”

Overall, I won't say this film is awful per se, but it was certainly a dissapointment to people waiting for another good movie after M. Night's The Sixth Sense, and I suppose this might be worth a rent, possibly, although you'd be better off just catching it on TNT or some such crappy channel.

I give it two Meatwads, just because I'm grading all movies on this scale, to give this a three in the overall history of film is heresy (and maybe I'll change some of my previous ratings to reflect this...ehehhehe...)