This was an enjoyable film for the most part, Night's talents as a director really shone in this film, through his use of framing and colour choices. The final product really highlights the care and thought which Night put into the visual choices of the film. His downfall however is that though he may be a good director, he's also a terrible writer, this is a film which has had 2 great films worth of build-up, and for it's first hour and half, Glass was actually a very enjoyable experience and worthy successor to its predecessors. Willis, McAvoy and Jackson were all wonderful, their characters were incredibly entertaining to watch and their interactions with each other were bloody brilliant. However, unlike its predecessors, Glass was unable to maintain its momentum in its final act, which left me thinking Night chose an ending purely based around the surprise factor rather than a more logical approach. The writing just wasn't very good in my mind, perhaps in his mind, the ending to Glass made perfect sense, however as a viewer i felt i didn't get the satisfaction of fully understanding the motivations and reasoning behind the character choices in that final act of the film.
The large amount of characters featured in this film may have also attributed to this film not working as well as it could have, i think this is because there was a lack of focus. We have 3 main characters, but you don't really feel like you get to spend enough time with any of them through the movie, because there isn't enough focus placed on the characters before the scene transitions. The side characters are also heavily under-used, these characters have scattered and somewhat out of place scenes throughout the movie which i thought could've been completely left in the editing room, with the exception of Willis' character's son, none of the side characters really needed to be in the movie until the final act.
I still believe this film was an enjoyable experience, though the ending leaves much to be desired, Shyamalan ends his eastrail 177 trilogy with a fairly mixed bag of a film.
I still believe this film was an enjoyable experience, though the ending leaves much to be desired, Shyamalan ends his eastrail 177 trilogy with a fairly mixed bag of a film.