12 Recent Movies That Really Shouldn't Have Been Boring

M. Night Shyamalan's career was reignited by one post-credits stinger, with the appearance of Bruce Willis' David Dunn at the end of Split sending fans into raptures, as the director's most recent movie Split was revealed to share the same universe as one of his best.

We might never have got the straight-up Unbreakable sequel that we kept hearing about it, but Glass looked to be a damn fine substitute, especially with Samuel L. Jackson's Elijah Price also re-entering the fray. Instead of giving us the epic showdown that everybody wanted, Shyamalan went full Shyamalan in the end, reducing the bulk of the narrative to exposition and neutering the entire selling point of Glass by having three superpowered individuals chained up and told that they aren't special at all.

Deconstructing the genre could have been an interesting way to approach the material, but the execution was extremely flawed right up until an ending that made little sense in the context of the story, leaving audiences as bored as Bruce Willis appeared to be throughout the entire thing, despite the best efforts of his much more enthusiastic co-stars.