Glass - Spoiler Review

glass has now had a full weekend to make a bunch of money at the box office hopefully most of you have seen it as well as my spoiler free review because this review is going to be nothing but spoilers that's your warning I'm gonna get into every detail to plot the ending all that stuff if you guys saw my original review you noticed probably that I didn't grade the film because I felt conflicted I wasn't sure if I was on the positive or negative side I was somewhere on the fence and there was just things about the movie that that bugged me and I wanted to see the film again with fresh eyes with zero expectations just going in knowing how it was going to conclude and seeing if I liked the film any more the second time when split ended it set up a confrontation between the beast and David Dunn who in this film becomes known as the overseer and that was very enticing to me and so the first 2025 minutes of this movie gave me just about everything I wanted I was concerned though because the beginning of the film the first act felt like how I imagined the movie ending and I was like how are they gonna maintain this because this is so exciting and this is really well done and it does take a turn for a more slow burn film which to me is actually kind of great because I'm a huge fan of unbreakable and I love the way that movie has a slow burn approach to its characters and how it builds things slowly and how it lets you breathe and think and it's just a meditative movie it really allows you to observe small moments and I was glad to see glass bring that back I got no problem with them being in a psychiatric ward being treated for what is a perceived illness in the case of Kevin Wendell crumb played by James McAvoy obviously he has di D disassociative identity disorder but one of those identities is extremely powerful and can climb on walls and not get killed by bullets and Ben steel and this doctor played by Sarah Paulson is trying to convince all of them that it's all just a fantasy in their minds including David who believes that he is super strong and invovled to a lot of things like illness but that water is his primary weakness Elijah price played by samuel l.jackson believes that he's a mess and that he has the opposite side of what David has and he's the opposite side of that spectrum I love the idea of putting these characters in a confined space and forcing them to be involved in a mind game that pits them against each other psychologically this is different you know this is wacky and weird and just really out there which is exactly what I want from an M night Shyamalan film even films of his that I didn't appreciate as much as others they all don't feel like the mainstream they all feel outside of that it's something I've always appreciated about his movies and it's why I've always championed them he's not a filmmaker concerned with the trends of the day he wants to be the guy who's the outlier and glass lives up to that and I can tell you that on second viewing I found myself appreciating the movie a lot more because I was able to wipe the slate clean anything that I wanted to see I was able to accept that I wasn't going to see that and just take the ride with Shyamalan that being said the biggest disappointment for me in this movie was the arc for David Dunn he doesn't really have won his arc is is very similar to his in the first unbreakable and unbreakable he believes his life to be a certain way someone comes along and says no your life isn't like that it's not how you thought actually you're this and his arc is eventually accepting that and becoming a superhero and in this film he believes himself to be a superhero someone comes along and says hey no no no you're not a superhero you're actually this and he starts to believe that before eventually accepting that he is a superhero and so the arc at the very end changes ever so slightly from the first movie but it just wasn't very well executed I didn't really feel that there was enough weight given to his character he very much felt like he was on the sidelines he didn't really have a lot of dialogue there was a whole like 20 25 minute section in the middle of where he's not even there when we see him crying alone once in his cell and then after that he's kind of gone for a long time I wish that I had seen more from him because I loved that character I do like what they did with him and his son Spencer treat Clark returning and giving an excellent performer as well not enough people are talking about how good he is in this movie and I want to see him in more roles I'm so happy that he was in the film and how good he was but there was sort of like a Batman an Oracle thing going on with them which I thought was really awesome naturally James McAvoy is magnificent and his character definitely carries some of the more saggy er portions of the movie there's a few new personalities this time that come out some of them speak different languages there's a great scene where he's flirting with this orderly loved it there's a lot of great stuff with him and as I said he definitely makes the film feel like it has something going on when it doesn't necessarily have as much to do samuel l.jackson barely speaks for the first hour of the movie in fact I actually don't think he does speak for the first hour the movie but once his character is introduced as being a presence great stuff I mean there are scenes throughout that were so so awesome I loved him in the wheelchair in the patient property room and the Beast is just killing that guy and he's just sitting there watching really strong scenes and the meet up between the beast and mr. glass in that room or he's trying to convince him to show himself and that his powers really mean something perfect couldn't have been handled better it's really just David's arc and the twist involving a secret society of people who try to keep superheroes from being in the public eye that I didn't really like that much it's not the type of twist that ruins the movie for me especially on second viewing and seeing Elijah's plan click into place and this cult that's been trying to keep superheroes out of the public eye for all this time kind of gets there just do but it just felt a bit unrealistic this idea of them just being in a restaurant and once enough people leave the door shuts and now they're just talking amongst themselves it just felt like why didn't they just have like a weird warehouse facility or something that was definitely private it just seemed a little unrealistic there are also some plot hole type things in the film I discussed it briefly in my spoiler free review the idea of the beast being restrained by this strobe light makes for some great scenes but a lot of his personalities are very smart and Denis in particular one of them should have realized that he could just cover his eyes and not look at that light and then kind of you know break out of the door but that was never really explored another major issue is that there is a lot of explaining going on there's a lot of sequences where especially the doctor character played by Paulson just explains things to us particularly with the twist like she's looking at one of the orderlies just saying what Elijah did he went through the basement because there's more cameras when she's standing amongst her fellow cult members she's like I know what my assignment is and then she says her assignment and she says why she does what she does and there's just things like that where I'm like okay I get it you're explaining it to us similar to the twist in the village another film of his that was very divisive upon first viewing that more people have come to like nowadays I appreciate the village I like how ballsy and weird it is similar to glass for instance but he has a habit of explaining things when they don't really need to be explained as much and I wish he would trust audiences just a little more in that regard it's just really sad that David goes through everything he goes through to just be trapped in a facility for a while and then get drowned in a mud puddle it's just very anticlimactic and I wish he had a little more to do than just reach out touch the doctors hand realize what's happening and then he just kind of dies thinking oh that's over with and it's like he's the hero you know and he's just kind of tossed to the side and in a way the film kind of agrees with the villains because Elijah's plan the main villain of this trilogy is what eventually comes to play and it's viewed as this kind of beautiful moment because the superhuman characters are going to be revealed to the world and now other people can hopefully come out and say yeah I feel like I'm one of them too and it's gonna hopefully start a revolution which is sort of his idea the problem is it was treated as a hopeful moment which is cool but since it's brought about by a terrorist it feels strange like like I actually wish that the film ended on a really sour sad note instead of making it seem hopeful like if it if it showed how much chaos and carnage had to happen for something else to happen and just got the execution of that right I love the idea I love that idea because it isn't safe it's risky and I fucking love that I hate safe movies and we had a whole fucking year of safe shit just now I love that the ending of this movie is like whoa that's kind of dark I just wish that it wasn't treated as a hopeful moment with all these people holding hands and the music is swelling but that's really where my issues end there's just certain elements of the execution that could have been a lot stronger to really boost the feel that M Night was going for there's a lot of other things I like - I like the fact that there are some unbreakable deleted scenes in here it really adds something that I've never seen done before the idea of a movie that was shot almost 20 years ago just having the deleted scenes incorporated in a sequel because I don't remember the first deleted scene I remember the one with young Elijah in the amusement park but I had forgotten about the first one and when Bruce Willis walks through the door for like a split second I thought to myself holy shit that is the best d aging CGI I have ever seen oh it's a deleted scene that's fucking cool I also like how M Knights cameo in this film explained a question I had from split because he has a cameo and splits and unbreakable unbreakable he plays the guy who is smuggling drugs into the stadium and Willis comes and Pat's him down but then in split he's like a security guard cameraman watcher person and so in this one when he plays that same character he mentions he used to hang out with some shady folks down at the stadium I was like okay so it is the same guy throughout time it's not just like a weird error between unbreakable and split and something else that I feel is left up to interpretation but could perhaps be explained more in the future is Casey cook in this film and what exactly she's doing because M night makes a real point to show a lot of close-ups of her hands touching James McAvoy and the doctor character even says the power of true love and affection is something that you can show these people and I was like oh shit so are they saying that she is in some way also special or enhanced in some way shape or form it just it was never fully clear and it seems a little bit open to interpretation but it's something worth thinking about but easily the thing that I love recognizing the most on the second viewing and something that really stood out to me was the comic book store scene when linked to the last thing you see in the film the comic book store scene where Casey cook gets a comic by the way that's the same actor who portrayed the you better not be jacking off to the Japanese comics I swear to God guy in unbreakable same actor that's really cool but he mentions how the first issue of Action Comics had Superman lifting up a car and how that started it all and at the end of the film you get that shot of the beast turning a car and flipping it over which is you know starting this origin that hopefully mr. glass wants to happen of all these superheroes and so it was just a nice little through line there that I hope more people can can notice now this movie is better on the second viewing and I have to say I'm a little I'm a little annoyed actually because Rotten Tomatoes has started to just take people's reviews and publish them with a good or bad grade without actually checking with the person first that's understandable when I give a movie a grade like if it's a C+ or below and they give me a rotten review okay I get it you did that but I specifically said in my review for glass that I was conflicted and I wasn't going to grade it yet but they still took my review and threw me in with the the giant mob pile of rotten reviews I'm actually not gonna give this film a rotten review I'm going to give it a positive review I'm gonna give glass a B I'm not a big fan of the twist I'm not a big fan of David Dunn's arc don't like how he went out but everything else in the film I think is really different and I like that M night Shyamalan is making movies like this do I like everything about this final movie in the trilogy no am I glad that a trilogy like this exists fuck yeah because it's different it's not the same this isn't another churned out Hollywood movie M night Shyamalan self-financed this movie he self-financed split with the visit he mortgaged his own house to make that movie so all of the critics who keep saying things like who's letting M night Shyamalan make movies you don't have to have permission to express yourself through an art form he's paying for them himself you never never never never take someone's right to express themselves through an art form away just don't do it that's when we get into the equilibrium world where art becomes illegal the movie that like when it came out I was like that makes no sense that's a stupid stupid plot but now when I watch equilibrium I'm like shit I can actually kind of see that happening nevertheless glass is a very divisive movie and in some ways very much so disappointed me and let me down but on second viewing especially I found a lot to like about it and I am glad to see films like this being made and I will continue to look forward to films that Shyamalan makes guys thank you so much as always for watching look forward to more reviews very soon and if you like this you can click right here and get stuck mine eyes [Music]

Channel: Chris Stuckmann

Views: 461,951

Rating: 4.8904967 out of 5

Keywords: Glass, Movie Review, Chris Stuckmann, 2019, Reviews, Film, Scene, Clip, Trailer, Teaser, James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Samuel L. Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, M. Night Shyamalan, Ending, Spoiler, Spoilers, Twist, Explained, Explanation, Meaning, Analysis

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Length: 15min 0sec (900 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 21 2019