ReviewGlass film review: M Night Shyamalan bridges Unbreakable and Split with disappointing sequel
- Shyamalan’s origin story has a good premise, but fails to live up to its potential
- The plot and some of the characters seem less original and exciting
2.5/5 stars
At the end of M Night Shyamalan’s last film Split, the camera cut to Bruce Willis in a bar, watching a news report.
Boom. Two worlds collapsed into one, as Shyamalan fused Split, with its story of multiple personality sufferer Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), with that of Unbreakable, released back in 2000, and starring Willis and Samuel L. Jackson as two men who believe they posses abilities far beyond the norm.
It was a neat twist from Shyamalan, a director who has traded his entire career on cinematic sleight-of-hand, giving him the chance to resurrect Willis and Jackson’s characters. So now we have Glass, a reference to Jackson’s villainous Elijah Price, a man born with brittle-born disease who has suffered 94 breaks in his life.
Price is now held up in a psychiatric institute, seemingly catatonic. Meanwhile, Willis’ David Dunn, the only one to survive a devastating train crash all those years ago, sells security equipment in downtown Philadelphia.