Rent Glass (2019)
3.0 of 5 from 973 ratings
2h 4min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Elijah Price, also known as Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), finds David Dunn (Bruce Willis) pursuing Kevin Wendell Crumb's superhuman figure, The Beast (James McAvoy), in a series of escalating encounters. Price, armed with secrets critical to both men, emerges as a shadowy orchestrator.
- Actors:
- James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, Luke Kirby, Adam David Thompson, M. Night Shyamalan, Shannon Destiny Ryan, Diana Silvers, Nina Wisner, Kyli Zion, Serge Didenko, Russell Posner, Kimberly S. Fairbanks, Rosemary Howard, Bryan McElroy, Owen Vitullo
- Directors:
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Producers:
- Marc Bienstock, Jason Blum, Ashwin Rajan, M. Night Shyamalan
- Writers:
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Studio:
- Walt Disney
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
- Collections:
- 2019, CinemaParadiso.co.uk Through Time, Top 10 Films About Trains: Thrillers, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/05/2019
- Run Time:
- 129 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1, Spanish DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Alternate Opening With Introduction By M. Night Shyamalan
- Deleted Scenes
- The Collection Of Main Characters
- A Conversation With James McAvoy And M. Night Shyamalan
- Bringing The Team Back Together
- David Dunn vs. The Beast
- Breaking Glass: The Stunts
- Connecting The Glass Universe
- M. Night Shyamalan: Behind The Lens
- The Sound Of "Glass"
- Enhancing The Spectacle
- Raven Hill Memorial
- Night Vision
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/05/2019
- Run Time:
- 129 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Atmos, French DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1, German DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1, Italian DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing, French, German, Italian
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (15) of Glass
Disappointing - Glass review by si
Total waste of a good cast & creative idea. But falos flat though.dull & uninspiring..The cast do well with a mediocre script & no cgi to speak of required in this kind of genre movie..I won't be watching this again lol !
4 out of 5 members found this review helpful.
Promising but unsatisfying - Glass review by jc
I was looking forward to Glass. I wanted to see the finale where the three characters from UnBreakable and Split get together and what would result. THE result was... odd. SLIGHT SPOILER - I did appreciate how the psychiatrist tried to get the characters to doubt they were really superheroes - that was cool - but the finale promised something epic... and then (in my opinion) wimped out for a low budget small scale finish. I can only conclude that the director promised an in-depth character study that woudb't cost much (or the main actors took all the cash!) Look, all three actors are skilled and it was a pleasure to watch them - but honestly, we needed a big finish which didn't come.
3 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Boring and annoying - Glass review by CP Customer
A decent cast was wasted because this film was just boring and annoying. There can be a slow build to tension. But if it does not progress the story it is frustrating for the audience.
2 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Critic review
Glass review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso
There tends to be a scoffing and mockery of M. Night for his left-field twists but, let’s face it, they make his lesser films memorable. But I’ve grown rather fond of their lunacy that the lack of the surprise in Glass has me longing for the ridiculous. Consider how this film is meant to be a trilogy closure after the two previous films of Unbreakable and Split revealed that they were truly comic book movies the whole time, surprising you at the end. Unbreakable ended with the origins of hero and villain. Split ended with the shocker that it exists in the same universe. And now we come to the end without any shocker of genre-shaking conclusions. It starts as a comic book movie and ends with a comic book movie, weaving twists better suited for the genre than bringing something new to the table.
It’s a bit of a downer considering the strong players assembled. James McAvoy returns from Split as Kevin Crumb, along with all his 24 different personalities, from the kid-like Hedwig to the viciously super-powered Beast. McAvoy perfectly embodies all these characters with an ease that he’s still just as creepy and fascinating to watch. Chasing after this maniac is David Dunn (Bruce Willis), the strong man from Unbreakable with the weakness of water. Just when the final showdown is about to be waged, the two are arrested and whisked away to a mental institution where the two meet Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), the man who believes himself to be a supervillain with his fragile bones and incredibly smart mind.
Sarah Paulson plays a therapist specializing in these types of personalities and doesn’t by Glass’s logic of how the comic book world has merged with reality. She tries to explain away their actions with convincing arguments that make us question how real these people believe themselves to be. Glass knows no better; he’s not only sure of these powers but is counting on fulfilling the comic book narrative of having Dunn and Crumb finish their match of strong man versus crazy man. To stop him, the friends and survivors of these patients will have to, and try not to laugh at this, uncover the mysteries behind comic book lore to find out his plans.
Glass has plenty of potential to be a real commentary on the current climate of superhero cinema. Paulson’s character rejects the notion of superheroes as childish distractions while Glass tries to evoke it through the evils of the world that doubt what they do not understand. It’s rather unique when accented with McAvoy’s fantastic performance and Jackson’s calculative moves hidden behind a dead expression, along with Willis, well, just being Willis.
But even with the subversion of Glass’s plans, where the promise of a big battle atop a giant tower goes unfulfilled, the climax comes to a baffling conclusion that seems more tired than transformative. Consider how Kevin is more appealing when concealing his inner beast within the dark shadows of a warehouse, only to unleash it in the daylight of a parking lot with far less intimidation. McAvoy is a great actor but there’s only so much he can do as a shirtless man trying to imitate the hulk with his car-flipping abilities and mighty roar. Watching him have a fist fight with Bruce Willis in the daylight is more strange than compelling. But on in that over-the-top M. Night kind of strange.
Of course, there is a twist but since Glass is now so deeply committed to the comic book genre, it’s a twist that fits too well into its world. And rather than offer any sort of unique commentary on superheroes, supervillains and the nature of comic book culture, Glass merely spins its wheels to provide closure and more or less rides that pop culture train than offer up anything insightful. When even the expected twist is a downer of missed opportunities for both intelligence and insanity, the trilogy closure acts as little more than a period to a trilogy claimed by M. Night to be 19 years in the making.