'Glass' review — Wild, ambitious, and confounding

Glass is a wildly ambitious conclusion to M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy that succeeds and fails in many ways. 

Glass — the finale of M. Night Shyamalan’s surprise Unbreakable trilogy — is ambitious and wild. It works completely in some aspects and fails in others. But I’m glad that it exists. Shyamalan took the initiative and self-financed the film, but it’s the kind of risky movie that I want to see coming from studios.

After the critical reevaluation of the original Unbreakable that has pushed it to become the #filmtwitter default pick for M. Night Shyamalan’s best film and Split’s surprise twist of being in the same universe as Unbreakable, it was only natural that Shyamalan finished his comic book film series as a trilogy.

Though, that begs the question of whether or not a third film was actually necessary. Unbreakable is driven by the mystery of whether or not David Dunn (Bruce Willis reprising his role) is actually a superhero — spoiler: the answer is a resounding yes …