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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3 Stars)
According to IMDb, Glass is about security guard, David Dunn, who uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.* But Glass is about so much more than that. Let's begin this review with a question. Did you know that Glass is the last movie in this Sci-Fi M. Night Shyamalan trilogy? If yes, please skip ahead to the end of this review. If no, let me get you up to speed.
M. Night Shyamalan (director of some of the most famous Sci-Fi movies like The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village, and Lady in the Water) wrote and directed Glass which connects the worlds of Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016). Basically, it is a trilogy with no overarching title like you might be accustomed to (like Twilight or Lord of the Rings) and has taken 19 years to finish.
What IMDb is leaving out of the description is that Glass is about Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) and how he touched the lives of David Dunn (Bruce Willis) and Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) - the disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. The acting is what is giving this movie such a high rating.
Let's talk about James McAvoy's acting for a moment. He played 24 different personalities and sometimes all within seconds of each other. That has to be very exhausting as an actor. And for each personality to have a different body language and different voice is incredible. Even some of the ways he had to run or walk was different for each personality. How is he not nominated for an Oscar or SAG Award already?
After seeing the movie, I had a lot of questions because I was confused. So let me explain for anyone that was also in my boat. During the movie, Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson) conducts tests on each of the three men and have security cameras up everywhere. She is trying to convince that they are psychotic because each man thinks he is a superhero. Towards the end of the movie, you start to find out that Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson) was in a secret clan that humanely kill super people (whether villain or hero) to keep the balance of society. (pause for gasp). What a twist! But wait - there is more.
Remember the security cameras? After all three men are dead (spoiler...sorry) Sara Paulson has a scene where she is deleting all the security footage so no one will know the men ever existed. Now let me pause and go back for a second. Before you find out the shocking twist of Dr. Ellie Staple (Sara Paulson), Elijah Price (Samual L. Jackson) and Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) try to break out of prison. There is a scene right before that happens of Samual L. Jackson's character writing some piece of code on the computer. It isn't until after Dr. Ellie Staple twist that you find out he put in a code to live stream every single piece of security footage to an off-site web host which is later sent to each of the men's supporting character.
Don't worry - I will wait for your exploding mind to come back before I continue.
Now I have a couple confessions. I saw this movie in those motorized D-Box seats. So they give the illusion of movement and is timed with the screen, in order to make the audience feel like they're tilting back and forth or moving up or down. The seats also vibrate and shake in time with explosions and other kinds of action sequences. So instantly I feel more connected to the movie.
Second confession - I dozed off a couple times. It wasn't that the movie wasn't interesting. There were just parts of the movie that were just too long and didn't help with the storyline. All in all - it was an okay movie. I wouldn't say it is life changing or I feel a great connection with any of the characters. I was mostly entertained...I mean I did fall asleep a couple times so that should give you a good indication. If you like Sci-Fi or M. Night Shyamalan movies, I think you would enjoy this. If you don't, don't waste your time (or money).
Did you see Glass? Let me know in the comments below what you liked or disliked about the movie.
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