Once again, the versatile James McAvoy is absolutely amazing as Kevin Crumb with split personalities, this time taking his performance to a whole another level and giving us new personalities to enjoy. It is a great joy to see McAvoy perform together with his co-stars.
Samuel L. Jackson plays a simple yet effective part and he feels a whole lot more villainous this time around. He is still as great as he was in Unbreakable (2000) 19 years earlier.
The climax is stylish and epic in believable ways and really lifts the film to another level. It's a great showdown but also a mix of the best elements from all films in the trilogy.
Kevin Crumb is the most fascinating character of the three protagonists, with the most painful experience and strongest emotional impact.
:smiley:
It is great to see how David Dunn's life and career has evolved and changed and how he gets entangled with the Beast from Split (2016).
Glass features great and quick reintroductions to the protagonists from the previous two movies. The early scenes immediately establish a natural blend of the two movies and Glass subsequently feels like a good combo of both.
The music in this film conveys tension, excitement and sadness better than the previous films. The creepy parts with the Beast are properly scary and the heroic parts with Dunn feel really heroic.
Glass feels like an epic showdown between two iconic comic book characters, like Batman v Superman (2016) or Captain America: Civil War (2016), but is grounded in reality and also has a different depth. It is closer to the typical superhero film than the earlier two movies, however.
The best parts are the ones where the main trio share scenes together. Those are few and far between during the first half but really stack up towards the end.
There is something dramatically poetic and beautiful about the ending, a great way to tie everything together.
:neutral_face:
Sarah Paulson is a bit bland both in her performance and in character. She is an important link between the characters but never gets really interesting.
This time around, the editing and cinematography isn't all that interesting.
After the introduction the story slows down and barely moves away from its initial position. It mostly goes around in circles and only McAvoy and Willis keep it interesting.
The story is very contained and keeps walking down the same path all the time. It opens up the characters' past a bit more and questions the existence of superheroes but that's about it.
McAvoy and Jackson are so great together and really get to develop their characters in an interesting manner, that Willis kind of falls under their shadow and feels less interesting.
Anya Taylor-Joy from Split and Spencer Treat Clark from Unbreakable are around and do well with the little material they're given, but play a very superfluous role to the events of the film and mostly just serve to break the natural flow of events.
:frowning2:
David Dunn is underused throughout most of the movie and could have been utilized better.
Jackson does nothing for the first hour and then suddenly takes over the show. The entire first half of the film is pale and doesn't really build up to the finale very well.
Review by Theo KallströmVIP 6BlockedParent2019-12-13T12:17:15Z
The Five Faces of Glass
:heart_eyes:
Once again, the versatile James McAvoy is absolutely amazing as Kevin Crumb with split personalities, this time taking his performance to a whole another level and giving us new personalities to enjoy. It is a great joy to see McAvoy perform together with his co-stars.
Samuel L. Jackson plays a simple yet effective part and he feels a whole lot more villainous this time around. He is still as great as he was in Unbreakable (2000) 19 years earlier.
The climax is stylish and epic in believable ways and really lifts the film to another level. It's a great showdown but also a mix of the best elements from all films in the trilogy.
Kevin Crumb is the most fascinating character of the three protagonists, with the most painful experience and strongest emotional impact.
:smiley:
It is great to see how David Dunn's life and career has evolved and changed and how he gets entangled with the Beast from Split (2016).
Glass features great and quick reintroductions to the protagonists from the previous two movies. The early scenes immediately establish a natural blend of the two movies and Glass subsequently feels like a good combo of both.
The music in this film conveys tension, excitement and sadness better than the previous films. The creepy parts with the Beast are properly scary and the heroic parts with Dunn feel really heroic.
Glass feels like an epic showdown between two iconic comic book characters, like Batman v Superman (2016) or Captain America: Civil War (2016), but is grounded in reality and also has a different depth. It is closer to the typical superhero film than the earlier two movies, however.
The best parts are the ones where the main trio share scenes together. Those are few and far between during the first half but really stack up towards the end.
There is something dramatically poetic and beautiful about the ending, a great way to tie everything together.
:neutral_face:
Sarah Paulson is a bit bland both in her performance and in character. She is an important link between the characters but never gets really interesting.
This time around, the editing and cinematography isn't all that interesting.
After the introduction the story slows down and barely moves away from its initial position. It mostly goes around in circles and only McAvoy and Willis keep it interesting.
The story is very contained and keeps walking down the same path all the time. It opens up the characters' past a bit more and questions the existence of superheroes but that's about it.
McAvoy and Jackson are so great together and really get to develop their characters in an interesting manner, that Willis kind of falls under their shadow and feels less interesting.
Anya Taylor-Joy from Split and Spencer Treat Clark from Unbreakable are around and do well with the little material they're given, but play a very superfluous role to the events of the film and mostly just serve to break the natural flow of events.
:frowning2:
David Dunn is underused throughout most of the movie and could have been utilized better.
Jackson does nothing for the first hour and then suddenly takes over the show. The entire first half of the film is pale and doesn't really build up to the finale very well.
:face_vomiting:
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The Final Face: :smiley: // Good