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THE REVIEW
If M. Night Shyamalan had stopped at The Sixth Sense, it would have been better. After that, it has been a continuous regression. He had slightly raised the bar with The Visit and Split, which now seem like the last acts of a dying man. In Glass, he is rambling, verbose, absurd, boring, and unusually unable to compensate for the usual problems of a questionable screenplay with the good directing technique he had been acknowledged for. This film, when it seems to reach a concluding point (to the relief of the yawning audience), keeps resurrecting up to a tragicomic epilogue as relevant as a Di Maio speech: just believe it truly, and anyone can transform into a superhero and defeat the strong powers. Pretentious.
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The reviewer criticizes M. Night Shyamalan's Glass as a disappointing film following his earlier successes. It is described as verbose, boring, and pretentious, with a weak screenplay that the directing cannot redeem. Though past films like Split and The Visit showed some promise, Glass ultimately feels like a regression. The film’s finale is called tragicomic and fails to engage the audience.
M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan (born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan) is an American filmmaker best known for suspense-driven thrillers that often hinge on a late-film twist, and for recurring themes of fear, faith, grief, and family.11 Reviews
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