Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Cherri V Do not waste your time watching this movie. Although it had a strong start, like at the very beginning when he starts to react to the pills, it was funny and it could have gone somewhere, but it didn't because there were too many holes in the story. I was watching it thinking, 'where the hell are the cops?' and 'why the hell didn't she call the cops?' and 'why the hell didn't his friends do anything to help him?' and 'why the hell are the guys in the suites doing their own dirty work?' The story could have been so much better, but it fell short. It saddens me that someone would take such a great concept and turn it into this. This movie left me feeling empty and wanting more. It left me with a lot of questions for the main character and the supporting actors. Not worth it.

tieman64 Hal Haberman directs "Special". The plot? Comic book fan Les Franken (Michael Rapaport) lives a lonely, dull and ignored existence. Spiralling into depression, he signs up for an experimental antidepressant. The drug has extreme side effects: Les believes himself to have superpowers, believes himself to be "special" and so sets out to rid his neighbourhood of crime.It's a dark and depressing film. Superheroes typically have alter-egos and of course function as giant alter-egos for audiences and readers. Here Les (literally "less") compensates for his brutalised self-esteem by jumping wildly in the other direction, becoming a grostesque, sad parody of your typical comic book hero. He thinks he's fighting crime, running through walls, is impervious to pain, but clever editing shows the opposite: Les looking pathetic, slamming into concrete and oozing blood.The film ignores the larger causes of Les' "invisibility" (we only know that he's a lonely civil worker whose job motto is "I'm important"), but gets right the outcome of low self-esteem. Les compensates first with wild fantasies, drugs, extremes of sensation and then becomes increasingly self-destructive. The film ends with Les accepting that "not everyone can be important" and finding heroism in the simple act of "keeping on living" (ie not committing suicide). Depressed yet? It's a dour, nauseating, noxious film.7/10 – Rapaport is excellent, and "Special's" premise is smart, but there's not enough meat here for a feature length film. Worth one viewing.

murdertogo Terrible hand-held camera work with perhaps the worst lighting in any released movie, this unfocused and out of focus film is a prime example of why digital video is killing independent film-making. Basically a very bad college film without the production quality this film had a spark of creativity in its original concept which was never successfully executed. Perhaps it was the terrible direction, the rotten writing or the overwhelming bad camera and editing work, that makes the average viewer irritated and annoyed at having lost 90 minutes of their life for nothing in return. Everyone one involved in this film desperately needs to go back to film school and listen to their teachers for once.

twiswall The acting was tolerable...but who could really care about the acting. The movie was boring, the story line was idiotic, I don't have enough time to write how much my wife and I hated this movie. At this very moment I can't even say why I sat through the whole thing...bad bad boring movie.One last comment...a comedy...are you serious??!?!?! This was a depressing story about a guy who loses everything because he was prescribed a medication that had really bad side effects. That in no way shape or form is a comedy...a tragedy yes...but a comedy...I think not. Did I say this was a bad movie yet....?