Wow, I am completely blown away. Words can’t explain how great this movie is. I am dumbfounded from the way the plot of the story unraveled to the implementation of the characters. I am entirely wowed. In 2019 we have a year of many upcoming potentially amazing movies, but I know this will remain in the top few. Director M. Night Shyamalan made it monumental.
If you did not know or don’t know too much of this series here is the jest of it. The first movie Unbreakable was a movie about Bruce Willis’s character “David Dunn” who is basically impervious to physical pain as well as superhuman strength. Second movie of the series called Split was about James McAvoy’s character who has over a dozen personalities, some childish, girly, and an evil monstrous personality called the “Beast”. Samuel L. Jackson character “Elijah Price” otherwise known as “Mr. Glass” was born with very fragile bones, but he has a very intelligent and malicious mind. Mr. Glass did appear in both Unbreakable and Split where he discreetly recruited the two for a superhuman cult.
James McAvoy’s character originally named Kevin Wendell Crumb but also known as his other personalities Patricia, Dennis, Hedwig, Barry, Jade, Orwell, Heinrich, Norma and The Beast. He’s a psychopath who abducted and killed teenage girls. Bruce Willis’s character “David Dunn” also known as “The Overseer” fights for justice and is known as the town’s vigilante. There are many other names for him, but his current one is revealed in this film. And Mr. Glass is also named “The Mastermind” because of his elaborate plan of grouping together with the other two in a confined space to raise hell.
In this film the setting is an asylum made for “ones who think that they believe are born from a comic book” where we find psychiatrist Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson) who is the doctor treating the sick minded. She is trying to take away their gifts by brain washing them of their powers she believes are just nonsense they read from a comic book. They are placed in separate rooms and undergo many different procedures to aid their superhuman capabilities. Dr. Ellie Staple studies all three and finds their weaknesses and uses it against them to keep them safe and confined in the asylum. For the multiple personalities of, Kevin Wendell Crumb, she uses large lights that make him jump to the other his other personalities and for the Overseer they use large hoses placed all around his room filled with pressurized water which is his only weakness, drowning.
There isn’t many special effects in this movie except for wall climbing and blowing out doors, but honestly there wasn’t a need for other effects to make this movie. The fighting is choreographed very well between James McAvoy (as the Beast) and Bruce Willis using their special gifts and it’s were CGI works best.
A teenage viewer from the audience states it well “Glass was an interesting movie that kept me engaged throughout. The whole concept behind it led everything from the beginning to conclude at the end as well as playing it off as the origin of a tale to a clever plan to begin a whole new story. Being a sequel from SPLIT, the teenage girl who Kevin (The Beast) let free, still plays an important role in the new movie Glass. New Characters were introduced as well, and a plot twist at the end of the movie that makes you have a different perspective, on the new and old characters within’ the movie. I feel as if they did not have to spend many portions of the movie with dialog that clustered about comic books and come up with a deeper meaning to who they are and find that out for themselves to discover oneself and the side you fight for. Other than that the movie was fantastic and the best I’ve seen for a while and I would hope the cast and team makes another sequel or another movie concept like Unbreakable, Glass and Split.”
For comic book fanatics and the lovers of fatal action this is the perfect movie. There are movies with the same idea, but this surpasses that notion and perfects it with an amazing plot. Especially the fantasy of the powers of the characters and their realism making you believe in such abilities. I am overwhelmed by this perfectly pieced puzzle that completes the trilogy. You better believe you’ll see me in the front of the line opening day to see it again.
Rated PG13 for violence including some bloody images, thematic elements, and language. May be inappropriate for kids under the age of 13. (4.5 out of 5 Stars)
