A sequel for 2000’s Unbreakable and 2017’s Split, it unites the likes of Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, James McAvoy, Sarah Paulson and Anya Taylor-Joy. Given that it puts itself vaguely inside the superhero genre – a genre that has truly embraced the mid-credits scene over recent years – is there some kind of coda for fans to enjoy here?
The answer is no – Glass does not have a mid- or post-credits scene.
It makes sense, given that those moments tend to be teasers for future movies – and Shyamalan has indicated that he’s finished with this particular story.
“I have a lot of original stories I want to tell,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
“I’m an original filmmaker and I want to keep on telling new stories and new characters.”
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He added: “It’s fun for me to figure out a new language, and then learn it, and try to get an audience in two hours to learn, and accept it, and really find their way.”
Sadly Glass has not gone down well with critics.
It has a 36% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with a consensus that reads: “Glass displays a few glimmers of M. Night Shyamalan at his twisty world-building best, but ultimately disappoints as the conclusion to the writer-director’s long-gestating trilogy.”
Over on Metacritic, its weighted average score is 42 out of 100.
IndieWire even called the movie the biggest disappointment of the filmmaker’s career, saying: “The trouble with Glass isn’t that its creator sees his own reflection at every turn, or that he goes so far out of his way to contort the film into a clear parable for the many stages of his turbulent career; the trouble with Glass is that its mildly intriguing meta-textual narrative is so much richer and more compelling than the asinine story that Shyamalan tells on its surface.”
And Variety wrote: “It’s good to see Shyamalan back (to a degree) in form, to the extent that he’s recovered his basic mojo as a yarn spinner. But Glass occupies us without haunting us; it’s more busy than it is stirring or exciting.”
Glass is projected to open to between $50-75 million this weekend in the US. Will its negative reviews dent its performance?
Glass is out now.