‘Glass’ Aimed High but Came Up Brittle and Transparent

Glass was, in fact, glassy. As in, useful but brittle, easy to break, and transparent af. I’ve always felt as though M. Night’s movies look really good on paper. His ideas are fun, the concepts appear strong and while not “new,” they arrive at interesting times in our history. Glass was just behind the curve on the superhero movie genre. Being behind the curve of the now mainstream action comic book movie phenomenon isn’t damning. Not at all. But what does make this a terrible movie going experience is how pretentious the whole thing is. M. Night goes hard in the paint to uphold that a comic book movie grounded in reality with believable characters and anchored by A-list actors can hold its own in Hollywood. Glass attempts to do so AS IF the Nolan Batman trilogy, Logan, and Black Panther never existed. Glass really thinks that it’s breaking ground on something that has already (and with far better execution) been a whole thing. The lead actors do extremely well in delivering their performances, but it all falls short. As if some well-intentioned but malignant hand (that would be M. Night’s hand) was puppeteering this film away from all relevance.

Sarah Paulson is WHY I EVEN THOUGHT TO SEE THE MOVIE in the first place. She gives a depth to everything she does (even if it isn’t written in). Bruce Willis’ reluctant hero-slash-proud family man thing has been working for him since ‘Yippie-Kai Yay’ echoed across the cubicles of Nagatomi Plaza. So yeah, there’s that. Samuel L. Jack…