Review of Glass (2019) by Jmorgan62 — 24 Jan 2019

NO SPOILER TIME Glass is the final movie to M. Night Shyamalan's trilogy that started with Unbreakable in 2000 and I have to say I really enjoyed this movie. The plot and story telling was pretty good but the way it is presented inst the best, Its better for a movie to let people figure things out. and how the movie is told is very similar to how Unbreakable was which was pretty good. there is minor things in this movie that all adds up and can annoy you, well at least it did to me as far as camera angles, editing, and writing. the performances was great especially Samuel Jackson and James Mcavoy, Bruce Willis could've done better and I mean a lot better but he wasn't given much to do. Some character were defiantly not needed even towards the end because it'll show why they are not needed. toward the end/ third act things kinda took a weird end that some people will not expect and might be disappointing. The structure of the movie was a little unbalanced and which is why I say Bruce could've done more. Towards the end also He quote on quote "Shyamalaned" it but He still has a lot to learn and improve on for himself and I praise this man for his hard works. go see it if you love the previous movies.

SPOLIER TIME YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Glass is the final movie to M. Night Shyamalan's trilogy that started with Unbreakable in 2000 and I have to say I really enjoyed this movie. The plot takes places fairly close after the events of Split from what I can remember from the movie, and from how it is laid out it was also really good but I wish the directing would have left a lot of the surprises for the audience to figure out and theorize about instead of it being told to us about what happened. the pace of the story telling was fairy close to unbreakable's pace, a nice slow burn. I really wanted the movie to expand to more than just the asylum and a few other minor locations. We never ended up going to tallest building made and that would've been sweet to see but we were just teased. The theme of the movie fitted everything in a nice way but not much was done for to make it a thriller, Split was a thriller movie and that felt like one but this one was great on the theme of sci-fi and drama with action mixed in. The art was pretty good and seeing Mr. Glass new suit looked fresh and everyone had their classical outfits that made it a charm to watch and not much other stuff to say about the art. Cinematography was interesting, new and sometimes plain annoyingly not wise, the angles that looks like it takes a lot of time to do was fine but there was so many extremely close up shots and awkward angles, but it wasn't too annoying to the movie because the cuts were about evenly good nothing to go off on. Same goes with the editing, it was interesting and wasn't anything annoying. The fonts at the start of the movie kinda got in the way but it was a style choice I'm assuming. Acting was about 50/50. I loved Samuel L. Jackson as well as James Mcavoy, and they did a great job. As far as Bruce Willis I wanted him to do more in this movie because I felt as though he was pushed to the side a lot and he could've given a better performance I know he could've. and more could've been better from pretty much all supporting casts. Anya Taylor-Joy in my opinion had no reason to be in this movie and served no purpose in my opinion. Spencer Treat Clark also did a great job too, almost perfect too. the writing of this movie was pretty good, there was a lot of things that could've been done smarter. Kevin could've wrapped a pillow around his head, Mr. G didn't have to do this suicide mission, and my goodness the ending of this movie was not satisfying, everything before the main characters death was great and enjoyable and I find it disrespectful to the fans of these characters and the way they went out and it was all in silly ridiculous ways and the people who saw it will most likely agree. Music was good too and every piece fitted every scene just fine. as far as originality it fine and I really do see this as an origin story to maybe M. Knight's next series of films, possibly. The secret organization wasn't really needed but we have it and it sets up a few questions. It kinda doesn't make since this organization didn't go to David's house when they heard a man survived a train crash so these people were forced in. Overall This movie was good and enjoyable and if acting was done a tad bit better it would've been even more better. The ending sets up a possibility for more superhero like moves from M. knight but we will just have to wait and see. There is a lot of small things M. knight needs to work on from here on and I applaud him for sticking with this movie and finishing it. He is truly a good man and has a passion for movies like very few others. Please see Unbreakable and Split before this movie and after those two.