History YMMV / Glass2019

* AudienceAlienatingEnding: This movie is this for the "Eastrail 177 Trilogy", with the divisive ending revolving around a [[AssPull twist that had no foreshadowing beforehand]] resulting in the anti-climactic death of all three major characters, [[spoiler: with David Dunn's death via being drowned in a puddle met with the most outrage.]]

* ContestedSequel: Fans are...''[[{{Pun}} split]]'' on the movie, some liking it and seeing it as a good sequel, while others hate it and feel Shyamalan has fallen back into his 'What a twist!' habit [[spoiler:especially with fan favorite the Overseer suffering an [[DroppedABridgeOnHim unceremonious death in a puddle]].]]

* ContestedSequel: Fans are...''[[JustForPun split]]'' on the movie, some liking it and seeing it as a good sequel, while others hate it and feel Shyamalan has fallen back into his 'What a twist!' habit [[spoiler:especially with fan favorite the Overseer suffering an [[DroppedABridgeOnHim unceremonious death in a puddle]].]]

* AudienceAlienatingEnding: This movie is this for the "Eastrail 177 Trilogy", with the divisive ending revolving around a [[AssPull twist that had no foreshadowing beforehand]] resulting in the anti-climactic death of all three major characters.

** There was a lot of mileage in making Dr. Ellie Staple the Anti-Mr. Glass; a [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest Nurse Ratched-esque]] psychiatrist with a severe case of TallPoppySyndrome. Who - either through personal tragedy or something deeper - tries to "keep order in an insane world." Price representing fantasy to Staple's representing mundane. Instead, [[spoiler: she's revealed to be member on a [[TheIlluminati clandestine order]] of ancient CapeBusters -- a twist that had almost no foreshadowing and seemingly came of out of nowhere.]]

** Hearing [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Elijah Price / Mr. Glass]] say "[[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avenge]] us!".
** To those unaware of the film's sequel status and it being advertised as a "comic book thriller", one can see it as a crossover of [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Nick Fury]]/[[Film/TheSpirit the Octopus]] and [[Film/XMenFilmSeries Professor Charles Xavier]]/[[Film/{{Wanted}} Wesley Gibson]] teaming up together speaking about superheroes existing with [[ComicBook/SinCity John Hartigan]]/[[Film/Red2008 Frank Moses]] in pursuit.
** An EvilGenius plans to [[Film/DieHard cause mayhem at a skyscraper with a Japanese name]] and Creator/BruceWillis is the right guy to stop this. [[spoiler:Although here it's just a RedHerring, the climax doesn't happen there.]]

** Creator/SamuelLJackson [[Film/{{Jumper}} once played a character]] who was [[spoiler: part of an AncientConspiracy to hunt people with superpowers. Here, he's ''exposing'' a conspiracy to hunt people with superpowers.]]

** To those unaware of the film's sequel status and it being advertised as a "comic book thriller", one can see it as a crossover of [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Nick Fury]]/[[Film/TheSpirit the Octopus]] and [[Film/XMenFilmSeries Professor Charles Xavier]]/[[Film/{{Wanted}} Wesley Gibson]] teaming up together speaking about superheroes existing with [[ComicBook/SinCity John Hartigan]]/[[Film/{{Red}} Frank Moses]] in pursuit.

** Lee of ''WebVideo/CinemaWins'', well-known for his positivity, said he didn't like it. Something he had ''never, ever'' said about any film, no matter how obviously terrible it is, before then.

** [[spoiler: The twist might have also worked better if the CapeBusters were not an ancient affair and more of a recent development. That way, instead of believing an AncientConspiracy took out people with godlike powers back in ancient times where some of the most advanced weaponry might be a bow, arrow, and a spear (and when having such abilities might make people worship you as a Son of Zeus or something similar), you would be able to have modern governments and agencies trying to conceal the truth about a potentially recent superhero phenomenon with the help of ModernBattlefieldWeapons.]]

* ShockingSwerve: As with many Shyamalan films, many feel this way about the PlotTwist. Particularly the fact that despite [[spoiler:supposedly existing for 10,000 years, the AncientConspiracy]] [[RememberTheNewGuy was never acknowledged, mentioned, or foreshadowed in either of the previous films]] unless you count what is brought up under AssPull above, seems to come out of nowhere, [[spoiler:let the Overseer run around doing superheroics for ''19 years'' despite [[NoManShouldHaveThisPower their given motive making that choice make no sense]]]], and [[spoiler:are dealt with so quickly within the film's narrative that [[DiabolusExMachina their sole purpose for existence is to kill the Overseer and the Horde off]].]] Worth noting is even the fans that ''do'' like it consider this twist the worst part of the film and dragging it down as a whole.

* ContestedSequel: Fans are...''[[JustForPun split]]'' on the movie, some liking it and seeing it as a good sequel, while others hate it and feel Shyamalan has fallen back into his 'What a twist!' habit [[spoiler:especially with fan favorite the Overseer suffering a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim unceremonious death in a puddle]].]]

* {{Sequelitis}}: [[https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/glass-first-reviews-jackson-and-mcavoy-shine-in-what-critics-are-calling-a-disappointing-trilogy-conclusion/ Early critical reviews]] have stated that the film is overall a major letdown from its predecessors. While fans have initially received it better, even many who liked it feel it's an inferior sequel to the previous two, with most citing the PlotTwist and ending as bringing the rest of the film down.

** Some people were disappointed Casey didn't have more of a hero story after her captivity in Split. Despite being filmed before Glass, ''Film/TheNewMutants'' would eventually have Anya Taylor Joy's character Illyana go through a similar plot, stuck in a health institute with a ambiguously evil Doctor watching over them.

* AssPull: [[spoiler:The much-maligned AncientConspiracy. It isn't foreshadowed ''at all'' in ''any'' of the films unless you count the nebulous description of Century Comics #117 from ''Unbreakable'' -- "That's where this group, the Coalition of Evil, tried to ascertain the weakness of every superhero" -- and is regarded by some as wholly unnecessary to the film.]]

* CriticalDissonance: Currently, the critic score on Rotten Tomatoes lies at a negative 37%, while the audience score is at a decent 75%. The film was also a commercial success, grossing $247 million on a $20 million budget.

--->'''Mr. Glass:''' Oh, Mama... this is not a limited edition. this was an ''origin story'' the whole time!

--->'''Mr. Glass:''' this was not a limited edition, Mama... this was an ''origin story'' the whole time!

--->'''Mr. Glass:''' this was not a limited edition, Mama... it was an ''origin story'' the whole time!

--->'''Mr. Glass:''' It wasn't a limited edition, Mama... it was an ''origin story'' all along!

* FridgeBrilliance: The Overseer never touches [[spoiler:Dr. Staple and she deliberately never let it happen. At least not until before he's killed.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNXrtIjN0r4 David & Elijah]], a DarkReprise of the ''Unbreakable'' theme, benefits massively from combining both the industrial atmosphere of ''Split'' with the iconic theme from James Newton Howard.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-b8zPTVB4 Origin Story]], the central theme of the film, notably used heavily in the emotionally charged climax and ending.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGT2hnk2xSc Brick Factory]] is notorious for being essentially a remix of both the Overseer's theme from ''Unbreakable'' and the Beast's theme from ''Split'', creating a fascinating contrast perfectly suited for their fight scenes.

* SoOkayItsAverage: This tends to be the most common opinion of the film held by fans. WebVideo/HonestTrailers lampshades this by, rather than putting it in the "Oooh, what's happening?" category of good Shyamalan films or "Uh, what happening!?" category of bad Shyamalan films, describing it as a "Well, that happened" film.

* ShockingSwerve: As with many Shyamalan films, many feel this way about the PlotTwist. Particularly the fact that despite [[spoiler:supposedly existing for 10,000 years, the AncientConspiracy]] [[RememberTheNewGuy was never acknowledged, mentioned, or foreshadowed in either of the previous films]] unless you count what is brought up under AssPull above, seems to come out of nowhere, [[spoiler:let the Overseer run around doing superheroics for ''19 years'' despite [[NoManShouldHaveThisPower their given motive making that choice make no sense]]]], and [[spoiler:are dealt with so quickly within the film's narrative that [[DiabolusExMachina their sole purpose for existence is to kill the Overseer and the Horde off]].]]

* CriticalDissonance: Currently, the critic score on Rotten Tomatoes lies at a negative 37%, while the audience score is at a pretty-good-to-great 75%. The film was also a commercial success, grossing $247 million on a $20 million budget.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The Ancient Conspiracy crosses it at the same time it reveals itself; by cold-bloodedly drowning the Overseer even though he's never done anything but try to stop Mr. Glass and the Horde's rampage with as little collateral damage as possible, and wasn't even particularly uncooperative as a patient.]]

* TheScrappy: [[spoiler:The AncientConspiracy]]. Many negative reviews cite its inclusion and everything surrounding it as the downfall of the film due to coming [[ShockingSwerve completely out of nowhere]], making little sense and [[spoiler:seeming to only exist to give the Overseer an anticlimatic death,]] and generally being seen as another of Shyamalan's much maligned {{Shocking Swerve}}s. Even a fair number of positive reviews cite it and what surrounds it as dragging the rest of the film down.