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3. Glass Was A Depressing Anti-Superhero Movie

It's probably fair to call M. Night Shyamalan's Glass one of the year's most catastrophic disappointments, but you at least have to begrudgingly admire Shyamalan's commitment to a totally un-commercial - and moreover, deeply unsatisfying - vision.

Split's tantalising final scene hyped-up Glass as an epic three-way superhero showdown between David Dunn (Bruce Willis), The Horde (James McAvoy), and Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), but Shyamalan ultimately had other ideas.

Hilariously, the teased final battle at a skyscraper is nothing more than a red herring, and the real final fight between Dunn and the Horde simply takes place in a bland parking lot.

That subversive twist on the superhero formula wasn't the problem, but the decision to kill all three superpowered characters in mostly underwhelming ways sure was.

Mr. Glass having his bones crushed by the Horde wasn't so bad, but the Horde being shot dead by a sniper and, worst of all, Dunn being drowned in a puddle, were a step too benign.

Clearly Shyamalan was trying to make a wilfully stripped-down, tragic riff on the grandiose superhero film, but given that audiences were genuinely excited to see these forces square off, sending them all to the grave with no fanfare and so little prospect of a sequel was a huge mistake.

It was a classic Shyamalan twist in its own way: unexpected for sure, but hollow and incredibly underwhelming.