Rating of
3/4
The Glass Man Knows
Topher - wrote on 02/01/08
Shyamalan's analysis of the archetypes in comics is spot on. For those of you who dig supers movies, try taking Samuel L's reading on heroes and villians and applying it to the recent Marvel Wave.
Although some of his movies lose the plot, Shyamalan undeniably has a master's eye and sense of mood. Unlike Spider-man or Hulk, he avoids the primary colors associated with comics and goes with selective moments of color enhancement -- a vision that is slightly more crisp, more alert, as though seen through a flash of adrenaline.
Bruce Willis is the strongest I've ever seen him -- something he accomplishes through silence and presence, rather than through his smart-aleky die-hard persona. He also manages to be vulnerable at the same time -- a quality Shyamalan seems to bring out of him.
