Throwing in my two cents *spoilers*

"Glass" is the first film of 2019 I went out to see this year. After a few months, I think I have a pretty good idea on how I feel about this movie.

Honestly, I enjoyed this movie a lot, however it was a let down in some ways, mainly because "Unbreakable" is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I thought "Split" was a strong movie as well, so for this to be the ending was a bit disappointing.

Pros:
James McAvoy's performance in this movie is phenomenal! With just one shift in his eyes, I 100% he was someone completely new.

Samuel L. Jackson's subtle performance is nice breath of fresh air from his usual roles where he shouts most of the time. What he does with just his face, and when he's completely silent is almost eerie and at the same time compelling.

The cinematography is really good in this film. I got the feeling almost every shot in this film was meant to be there for a reason, which is better than other films where they put the camera somewhere and the basics.

The use of color in this movie is astonishing! More specifically, the scene where the pink overshadows the purple, the yellow, and the green colors shows dominance over them, and then notice the purple is shot at a dutch tilt angle, as though the purple sees through the whole facade. It's just amazing!
Cons:
The Death of David Dunn ticks me off so much in this! It's not his death that bothers me, it's the fact that it took one regular guy to drown him in a puddle of all places, AFTER he broke a fiber-glass water tank, and his death was meaningless. Their was no reason at all for him to die, and to see him go out like this just hurts.

Bruce Willis felt like he was phoning it in, to me at least. His performance in "Unbreakable", in my opinion, is the best performance I've ever seen by him, so to see this performance was hard. I don't know if that was a Shyamalan choice, or Willis choice, but he didn't feel he was in there as much as McAvoy, or Jackson.

Sarah Paulson was also another performance I felt iffy on. Every line she says has just an awkward delivery to it that feels out of place. It definitely feels like a Shyamalan decision since she did seem to be giving it her all.

The ending. Now the ending itself isn't that bad, it's how we got there that makes me scratch my head. I understand their was probably no money to do an actual fight at the tower, but by constantly telling the audience that we're going to the tower, only makes the climax all the more anti-climatic since we've been told we're going there. Also the writing really suffers here, and the whole viral video reveal feels like it was written in the early 2000s when viral videos were becoming a thing.



One thing I do feel I need to state is I don't hate M. Night Shyamalan. If you check out his Twitter, you just see massive lover, and supporter of film! I read somewhere he cried when he got bad reviews for this movie, and I do feel sorry for him. I think he suffer from a George Lucas effect where if you tell him what works, and what doesn't, he can make some phenomenal works, but let him go all the way, and it's just insanity to watch.

I can look over most of the problems of this film. I saw it twice in theaters, both with crowds who were really into it, which is very enjoyable to see an audience who loves it.

It might be awhile before I see this again, but I definitely recommend it.