Glass movie review 2019


➡Glass is a 2019 American psychological superhero thriller movie written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and produced by Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, and Ashwin Rajan. The film is a crossover and sequel to Shyamalan's previous films Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016) and the third and final episode in the Unbreakable trilogy, a.k.a. Eastrail 177 Trilogy Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Charlayne Woodard and Spencer Treat Clark repeat their Sacred act, while  Anya Taylor-Joy and James McAvoy return as their Split figure with Adam David Thompson, Luke Kirby, Sarah Paulson joining the cast.

As the conclusion of"Split" triumphed, that movie occurred in precisely the same world as Shyamalan's 2000 movie"Unbreakable," still his very best work to date.   Shyamalan is playing to monologuing heroes and villains that are of their genre arcs, including his spins.  There's really an ambitious movie buried in"Glass," and I really do mean buried.  The issue is that Shyamalan can not find the narrative, allowing his story to never gaining.   "Glass" is a misfire, and it is the type of gloomy misfire that hurts even more given what it might have been.
 The former told the story of David Dunn, the sole survivor of a train crash, who discovered he was human.


There are glimpses of this crazy, ambitious film that"Glass" might have been, and that is what saves it from complete"Happening"-level tragedy.   And there are only enough out-there thoughts in"Glass" that it is not possible to entirely dismiss even if they don't arrive together.  It is that fine line between ambitiously sloppy and clunky.  I honestly kept trying to engage with"Glass" as a fan of Shyamalan's first movies, comic books, and films that try to mash-up recognizable genres in a way that produces a new one.  I resigned myself to the fact that it is not my fault that is broken.

And we understand Kevin Crumb has a character known as the Beast that takes shotgun blasts and can climb walls.  And yet a lot of"Glass" is dedicated to trying to convince David and Kevin that they're not super at all.  In some other twist ending's pursuit, Shyamalan takes a story step back, covering much rather than carving a new path that the two films did.  He is so obsessed with the end he delays any type of historical interest until then, forcing his audience to tread water.  Think long and hard about what you know at the end of"Glass" instead of what you understood at the start, and you will realize how hollow this entire venture has been.

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Paulson gives the identical speech multiple occasions, and a little with a glowing light which can change which character of Kevin's dominates goes on forever... and then occurs again.  Shyamalan is decided to cycle through the backstories of those characters, even using footage from"Unbreakable" and"Split" in flashbacks like he does not realize that 95 percent of viewers have seen them.  He seems intent on the shows of his fifteen minutes he forgets to take chances to produce the almost two hours before that intriguing.  Why is it?  Is Shyamalan decided to make another movie about instead of building on the foundation of whether superheroes are superheroes?  Imagine"The Avengers" retelling all of the origin stories and then questioning whether The Hulk is actually a superhero or just an angry dude.

Most of"Glass" occurs at Raven Hill Memorial Psychiatric Hospital.  In what could be known as the prologue, David/Overseer tracks down Kevin/Horde following four ladies are kidnapped by the man with multiple personalities, holding them.  Both men struggle, and one gets the feeling that something is not perfect.  This showdown between two of the most memorable characters in the history of Shyamalan lacks.  The pair head out a window and in the arms of Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson), the convinced physician who shuttles off them to the same psych ward that has been home Mr. Glass for nearly two decades.  Glass is kept as David and Kevin at a state in a room at the same wing.  Dr. Staple attempts to convince all three that they aren't really super at all.  David's strength is not Kevin's and that strange powers as The Beast could be explained away.

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Cast ➡



James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Horde/The Beast/Patricia/Dennis/Hedwig/Barry/Jade/Orwell/Heinrich/Norma 

Bruce Willis as David Dunn/The Overseer 
Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price/Mr. Glass 
Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke 
Sarah Paulson as Dr. Ellie Staple 
Spencer Treat Clark as Joseph Dunn 
Charlayne Woodard as Mrs. Cost 
Luke Kirby as Pierce 


Executive ➡

M. Night Shyamalan 


Essayist ➡

M. Night Shyamalan 


Cinematographer ➡

Mike Gioulakis 


Manager ➡

Luke Franco Ciarrocchi 
Renaldo Kell 


Writer ➡


West Dylan Thordson


IMDb➡ 6.7/10