Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
Glass attempts to conclude Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy but stumbles significantly. The plot spends too much time in a psychiatric hospital with repetitive scenes questioning whether the characters' powers are real, undermining the mythology built in the previous films. The acting is serviceable — McAvoy is electric switching between personalities, Willis is disappointingly underused, and Jackson is theatrical but effective — but the ensemble is constrained by the script. Cinematography carries Shyamalan's signature stylized framing and color-coding, competent but not exceptional. The concept of deconstructing superhero mythology remains somewhat distinctive as a grounded approach predating the genre's saturation, earning modest novelty. The ending is the film's biggest liability: the anticlimax of the main characters dying in a parking lot puddle and a twist reveal about a secret society feels both convoluted and deflating, betraying the emotional investment of the trilogy.