Special (2006)

Special is an emotionally gripping independent film about the adverse effects of a drug-in-testing on the main character, a lonely meter maid named Les. The drug gives Les the impression that he has amazing super powers in which he can read peoples minds telepathically, walk through walls, and levitate. Of course, Les being the comic fan that he is, decides that it's his duty to protect the general population by stopping and preventing crime (he ends up doing a lot of "preventing" a.k.a. tackling people who he sees as suspicious). He finds out later that he has become part of something significantly more in-depth than he ever thought.
This film was definitely one of the better ones I've seen in a while. What I liked most was the transformation in Les from a lonely, nervous guy that doesn't really have that much to live for, to realizing his real superpowers, that being his perseverance and his kindness. I think that's the main moral of the film; that we don't need what most people consider "superpowers" to do good, and I think Les realized this at the end of the film. At the beginning, Les is under the impression that with so many billions of people on the planet, not all of them can be unique or special, which he of course proves false by the end of the movie.
This movie also kept me thinking because it's filmed with situations that sort of neutral about whether Les actually does have superpowers or not. For the majority of the movie you are wondering whether he can actually walk through walls, or whether it's all in his head. Of course this leads to many hilarious instances of Les running full-speed in to concrete walls. Other than the heart-warming factor of this movie, it had a pretty interesting concept and was very well made for most likely being filmed on a very low budget. Special gets the coveted 5 out of 5.