Psychosis can give you weird powers

Special (2006)
Hadn't seen this before and found it when some people were comparing Super (2010) to this so I decided to give it a try. Les (Michael Rapaport) is a metermaid whose life is quite uninteresting until he decides to sign up for an experimental drug test. The pills turn out to have some psychotic side effects on him and he becomes convinced that he has super powers like levitation, mind reading and running through walls. While he's running into walls hurting himself and levitating while just laying on the floor, he thinks he's doing something unnatural but everyone else just thinks he's crazy. That's where the biggest problem with this movie comes from, everyone else seem to just make fun of the guy and when they finally realize that he really has a serious problem they don't really help him. So we are left with just Les himself without any voice of reason to balance the drama, like there wasn't anyone who actually cared about the guy. Of course the viewer cares about him and feels sorry for him, but really it becomes a bit tedious after a while when everything seems so one sided so you actually lose interest in him as no one else seems to care either. Another thing were the drug company guys, I just couldn't buy it, they were quite far from believable. None the less there were a lot of good in this one as well. I liked the idea, but would have taken a bit different approach to it. Michael Rapaport was quite great and carried the movie well when things got a bit dull. Rest of the cast didn't really impress me, not that they were bad, but they surely weren't great either. So it was very intriguing idea and partly well executed, but too many things scratched me the wrong way for it to be as good as it could have been.
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