(2.5 / 4)
Glass is most in its element when it brilliantly expands on the themes of power and belief laid out by its previous installments, but a last-minute plot twist prevents the film from sticking the landing.
Glass is the final entry of writer and director M. Night Shyamalan’s “Eastrail 177” trilogy as it definitively connects the two stories depicted in Unbreakable and Split and provides closure on this saga. In many ways, the entry that started it all, 2000’s Unbreakable, was ahead of its time as the superhero genre was far less prevalent 20 years ago. With the genre’s popularity currently being at an all-time high, it appears to be the perfect time for Shyamalan to circle back and conclude this unconventional trilogy. While the hit or miss director expands on many of the novel ideas from 2016’s Split, Glass doesn’t quite stick the landing as it is burdened with a ludicrous last-minute plot development that undermines much of what occurs earlier in the film.