Review of Glass (2019) by Kiwijinxter — 24 Jan 2019

I tried hard to go into this movie without any expectations. I mostly succeeded although I had read some reviews ("normal people" user reviews - not the useless professional critics' reviews). Some user reviews gave me the impression that there was a fantastic major twist at the end that's bigger than Sixth Sense. Yes, there was a twist at the end but not quite at Sixth Sense levels. Still it was a nice twist.

Overall the movie had great veteran actors in the 3 main "superhero" parts who all gave very good performances for their parts - James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson. You'd expect that, and you got that. Their performances held the movie up. The movie itself - without giving anything away - wasn't as "twisty" as I expected but it does keep you on edge due to the tenseness of all the characters, particularly McAvoy's "Split" character. In the end I did get the similar feeling I got when I watched Unbreakable. (I haven't watched Split yet). It was OK satisfying but not over the top. I think the problem M. Night Shyamalan is that Sixth Sense was so extraordinary that it is very hard for him to top that. Overall, it's a reasonably satisfying movie, but I felt that I wanted more fleshed out.