Glass (2019) - Shyamalan buries past effort in ominous superhero nonsense

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+ Worst Movie of the Year

 

Three contrasting colors and a cool dual image graphic design outline this anticipation-building poster for M. Night Shyamalan's Glass

In a special mental hospital patients are kept, who believe they are superheroes...

 

Glass is written and directed by Indian-born American master filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan (Praying with Anger (1992)), whose 13th feature it is. It is the final installment in his Unbreakable trilogy, which also contains Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016).

It is a ghastly and yawn-inducing boring dud that takes James McAvoy's (Wanted (2008)) personality split character and his Beast 'superhero' persona introduced in Split for another bow, as this is served as somehow 'psychological' material, while Bruce Willis (What Just Happened (2008)) and Samuel L. Jackson (Jumper (2008)) ravage as their unnecessarily and agonizingly reanimated characters from the memorable Unbreakable. Sarah Paulson (Swimmers (2005)) is on duty to put her face in serious folds as a doctor.

Without a plot that is anywhere near exciting, Glass flows onwards like a swamp of ominous nonsense. It may be labeled a superhero dystopia for adults, - but who will honestly enjoy this horrid junk?

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 20 mil. $

Box office: 246.9 mil. $

= Mega-hit (returned 12.34 times its cost)

[Glass premiered 7 January (Paris, France) and runs 129 minutes. The success of Split prompted Glass, which Shyamalan funded himself, - and likely via this strategy kept star salaries and thus the final cost at an impressive minimum. Shooting took place from October - December 2017 in Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia. Universal Pictures reportedly spent 80 mil. $ at marketing the film. It opened #1 to a 40.3 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 3 weekends in #1 and one more weekend in the top 5 (#5), grossing 111 mil. $ (45 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 14.2 mil. $ (5.8 %) and Mexico with 10.8 mil. $ (4.4 %). Shyamalan returned with Servant (2019-21) and theatrically with Old (2021). McAvoy returned in X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019); Willis with a voice performance in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), The Orville (2019, TV-series) and theatrically in Motherless Brooklyn (2019); and Jackson in Captain Marvel (2019). Glass is rotten at 36 % with a 5.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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