I try not to get swayed by early buzz or social media reactions from film twitter leading up to a movie's release, but the early mixed to negative reaction to Glass actually set me up pretty well to enjoy the movie. I don't think it was necessarily lowered expectations because I was still looking forward to it, but I guess the buzz helped me buy into the main conceit of the middle part of the film. I don't want to get too much into it for the sake of spoilers, but I'm really not sure what people expected, especially people that call themselves big fans of Unbreakable. This is pretty much what should be expected as an Unbreakable sequel, with the tease of the big showdown, final battle and everything. This is a natural extension of the grounded superhero, but not in a Dark Knight kind of way, in an Unbreakable kind of way. There are definitely some things to be called out, some cringey dialogue, a bad M Night cameo and the fact that David could just close his eyes or walk backward to defeat the dreaded "hypnosis lights" but all that doesn't matter, because try as you might to SPLIT this GLASS, it is UNBREAKABLE (oof)
Review by JimDarkoVIP 7BlockedParent2019-01-26T18:37:45Z
I try not to get swayed by early buzz or social media reactions from film twitter leading up to a movie's release, but the early mixed to negative reaction to Glass actually set me up pretty well to enjoy the movie. I don't think it was necessarily lowered expectations because I was still looking forward to it, but I guess the buzz helped me buy into the main conceit of the middle part of the film. I don't want to get too much into it for the sake of spoilers, but I'm really not sure what people expected, especially people that call themselves big fans of Unbreakable. This is pretty much what should be expected as an Unbreakable sequel, with the tease of the big showdown, final battle and everything. This is a natural extension of the grounded superhero, but not in a Dark Knight kind of way, in an Unbreakable kind of way. There are definitely some things to be called out, some cringey dialogue, a bad M Night cameo and the fact that David could just close his eyes or walk backward to defeat the dreaded "hypnosis lights" but all that doesn't matter, because try as you might to SPLIT this GLASS, it is UNBREAKABLE (oof)