Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Siren555 This movie is a treasure. Michael Rapaport perfectly plays the part of the downtrodden protagonist Les, absolutely luring us in with his character's purity of heart. Without being gimmicky or vague, Haberman and Passmore's direction and writing achieve a complex balancing act in terms of what is really happening with Les. There is pathos, humor, and, ultimately, a tale that speaks to the underdog in each of us. Note the name of the lead character: Les, as in "less." Michael Rapaport has been around as an actor for a while now, but I can't say I've seen him in anything else. As Les in "Special" he has definitely made an outstanding first impression.

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.

kjonesdp It took me quite a while to get past the cinematography. I could find no reason why the entire film was shot hand-held. It brought nothing to the story and was extremely distracting until I got past it and and started appreciating the acting and story. All DP's and directors should know when to put the camera on sticks and trust the actors to bring motion and emotion to the frame. The music was another stumbling bock for me. Extremely obvious and over the top choices were made throughout - and what's truly unfortunate is that I recognized a number of loops that were used in creating the score. Not a good sign. Having said all of this - I still laud the writers and directors for their effort and the actors for their work as well.

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.