What’s not to like about a crazy superhero that doesn’t even have super powers? In the movie Super, the story is all about a man whose hit rock bottom, and, in what may be the worst case of mid-life crisis, turns himself into a super hero out to get his life back by beating a drug lord who’s taken his wife away from him.

We’ve seen this kind of premise before. There’s the Woody Harrelson starrer, The Defendor and then there’s Batman—but then again we all know him and he’s meant to be serious from the start unlike the others born of spoofs and inspired by them as well. In Super, the unlikely superhero is called The Crimson Bolt with a sidekick called Boltie. Together, they costume up in outfits that look bad yet are cool enough to warrant praise.

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The Crimson Bolt, aka Frank D’Arbo, is played by Rainn Wilson, your unlikely actor to play a superhero in costume. But amazingly, once he dons his red outfit (reminiscent of the Flash’s costume), he looks kind of good, to be fair, and appears convincingly real in his madness of superhero grandeur. The antagonist, Jock, played by Kevin Bacon is his target. Will his costume be enough to kick Jock’s toot? He’s only got his wrench to use as a weapon and his comic-book-store-person-turned sidekick, Boltie played by cute Ellen Page.

The script for Super had been in the making in the head of director-writer James Gunn since 2002. It didn’t get the support it needed from the start with a lot of producers thinking it was too far out and violent. The idea of an ordinary person pushing himself to play the role of a real super hero complete with costume but sans the super powers was also considered too formulaic or cliché already. But again, what’s not to like about a crazy superhero that does everything he can to save himself and those around him from evil without any super powers to use?

The idea for Super is intriguing and poses a lot of questions as to how our hero will manage to fight crime with nothing but his crazy mind and dedication to hold onto. It doesn’t get any real than that, and is one of the reasons why the character of Batman and other down-to-earth superheroes are so engaging. Sometimes, you just never know what to expect, and that’s exciting. Super is like that, though it doesn’t intend to be that serious.