{"id":2315,"date":"2021-06-13T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2022-07-21T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T17:18:50","slug":"review-roundup-more-winter-spring-2021-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/13\/review-roundup-more-winter-spring-2021-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass (2019) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/glass-trailer-new-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/glass-trailer-new-1.jpg 948w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/glass-trailer-new-1-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/glass-trailer-new-1-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/glass-trailer-new-1-640x294.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption>Samuel L. Jackson in Glass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Glass <\/em>is the completion of M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s superhero trilogy that also consists of 2000\u2019s <em>Unbreakable <\/em>and 2016\u2019s <em>Split. <\/em>While <em>Glass<\/em>\u2019 screenplay suffers from a number of contrivances that easily could have been fixed, Shyamalan\u2019s execution still manages to make the film an overall success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce Willis is underused (most likely for budgetary reasons) as the indestructible David Dunn, but costars James McAvoy and Samuel L. Jackson more than make up for it. Playing a character suffering from a fantastical case of Dissociative Identity Disorder, McAvoy is a marvel to witness. He effortlessly jumps from one personality to another in long, single takes, creating something more awe-inspiring than any visual effect could ever produce. Jackson is cold, calculating, and oddly sympathetic as the title character: a criminal mastermind with bones so fragile they could break with only the slightest amount of pressure or force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a director, Shyamalan knows how to engage his audience and keep them in suspense with a slowly building and precisely controlled pace. As a writer, he\u2019s still more concerned with catching us off guard and shocking us than he is with creating a script that can\u2019t be picked apart after the movie is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>(SPOILER ALERT!)<\/strong> The film has two major plot twists that are revealed towards its end. The first is a great and shocking one that pulls the entire universe together. The second is jagged and tacked-on, sloppily sending the film off in an entirely new direction in its final moments. It\u2019s a part of the story that should have been developed throughout the film rather than quickly explained at its very end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shyamalan is ultimately guilty of trying to put too many things into one movie with <em>Glass. <\/em>However, it\u2019s a testament to his talent as a director that the film overcomes its faults and still manages to be a successful and satisfying conclusion to the trilogy he started nearly twenty years prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GRADE: B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass is the completion of M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s superhero trilogy that also consists of 2000\u2019s Unbreakable and 2016\u2019s Split. While Glass\u2019 screenplay suffers from a number of contrivances that easily could have been fixed, Shyamalan\u2019s execution still manages to make the film an overall success. Bruce Willis is underused (most likely for budgetary reasons) as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}