Movie Review: Glass (2019)
Synopsis: After superhuman David Dunn, now known as the Overseer, tracks down Kevin Wendall Crumb, aka the Horde, and frees the teenagers Crumb has kidnapped, the two men battle it out but are soon both captured by a team led by Dr. Ellie Staple, who institutionalizes the men in the same facility currently holding supervillain Elijah Price, who now calls himself Mr. Glass.
Dr. Staple tells the men their powers aren't real and instead are the result of delusions created by a brain condition she believes she can surgically correct. Glass, however, suspects they are being lied to and works out an escape plan that will also expose the truth.
Who's in it? The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sarah Paulson.
Review: My wife and I planned on watching Glass last summer, after first watching Unbreakable and Split. However, the movie wasn't available on any of our streaming services or at our library and I wasn't sure I'd like it enough to pay extra to see it, so we ended up waiting.
I finally came across it on one of our movie platforms yesterday and after watching it, my wife and I both agree it was NOT worth the wait.
I'll start out by saying I thought the overall premise wasn't terrible. As was the case with the first two movies in this trilogy, the idea comic book characters are based on real superhumans was something that was intriguing. This movie took that concept a step further by having someone like Dr. Staple (Paulson) debunk that theory while Mr. Glass (Jackson) did his part to prove it.
My biggest complaint about the movie is, while the concept is intriguing, the movie itself is, for lack of a better word, dull. As I told my wife, for a movie that has a superhero, Overseer (Willis), a supervillain, Glass, and the ultimate superweapon in the Horde/the Beast (McAvoy), there really isn't a whole lot of action. There's a quick battle early on, a slightly longer battle late in the movie and everything in between is nearly two hours of people talking.
Even the most interesting thing about the film, the big reveal about a secret society that either suppresses or eliminates superhumans was done in a way that kept it from achieving its full potential. Instead of making it a central part of the plot, it instead was saved until the very end as part of director M. Night Shyamalan's surprise twist. Only, it wasn't really all that much of a surprise since Staple's theories never made sense and it was clear she was up to something sinister from the start.
Final Opinion: Superhero movies need superaction. Or at least a lot more action than this film delivered. I know that probably wasn't the point of the movie, but it would have made it considerably more interesting to watch.
My Grade: C-
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