It has been several years since I’ve seen the movie, but I thought the art gallery was a gallery of comic prints. So he wasn’t an art connoisseur, so much as a comic connoisseur treating comics like art. I don’t know anything about mythology, and don’t really care, so I didn’t catch the line citing egyptian heiroglyphs rather than norse/greek/roman whatever.

I remember liking the moving partially because it didn’t need to delve into the wild flash bang action that defines brainless action movies – like GI Joe, Stealth, Transformers (1 or 2), etc. My wife figured out who the bad guy was immediately – the purple cloak – but I was surprised by the development, and I thought the movie was quite good. Michael Bay could have done a sequel, but I don’t think he could’ve done this one, it was too subtle. I thought making Willis a normal family guy added plausibility and depth to his character – he’s a real guy not some factory-made captain america type – rather than distracting from the superhero bit.

Of course the movie wasn’t perfect. I remember thinking that part of the reason I didn’t figure out what was going on, was simply because they withheld key facts until the “aha” moment. So rather than revealing just connections, they revealed important information. And the pacing wasn’t great, I was kind of bored at points. But all-in-all, I think this was Shyamalan’s 3rd best movie, after 6th Sense & Signs.