Glass

Greetings and salutations, welcome back for another follow up blog. This week we watched the M. Night Shyamalan movie, Glass. This movie is, of course, the final movie in the Unbreakable trilogy. It was also a super original concept for a superhero movie, in a time where that genre is becoming oversaturated. James McAvoy (Kevin Crumb), Bruce Willis (David Dunn), and Samuel L. Jackson (Mr. Glass) star in this thriller and really deliver on their end. My biggest takeaway from this movie was how damn good McAvoy can be in a leading role. If you’ve seen Split, then you’re already aware that McAvoy plays Kevin, a man with 24 different personalities. In this movie, you see somewhere around 20 of those personalities, with several of them being switched between in a single scene.

The story of Glass was also pretty interesting. After being captured and imprisoned in a psychiatric ward, our three main characters find themselves the subject of intense therapy. The main goal of this therapy is to make the three “supers” realize that they’re nothing more than normal humans. We see a very comic book style villain team up followed by a heroic effort to stop the evil plot. This movie isn’t without its necessary Shyamalan plot twists, of course. After the revelation that the events of Unbreakable also killed Kevin’s father, we see all three of the “supers” die. This is quickly followed by the fact that the therapy is being conducted by a shadow society who knows that superheros exist, and are trying to make them believe it is all in their minds. Shyamalan couldn’t help himself when he introduced a THIRD plot twist to end the movie. The battle between Mr. Glass, David Dunn, and Kevin Crumb was being live-streamed to the world, a move made by Glass in order to let all super people know that their powers are real.

This movie could have been a bomb like many Shyamalan movies before it, but it bucked the trend and ended up working. I was pleasantly surprised by this movie in the best way possible. It certainly isn’t on the level of Unbreakable, but I would recommend it for sure.

Rating - 71

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Mike