Glass: 10 Most Unintentionally Funny Bad Moments
8. Bruce Willis' Performance
Bruce Willis has had a tough go of it over the last few years.
It wasn't always like this. For a long period of time, Willis was an incredibly talented and successful actor in Hollywood. He consistently delivered great work and audiences turned out in droves to see him. He often gets kind of shorted when people praise Shyamalan's early work, but a monumental part of why films like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable work even half as well as they do is because of Willis' grounded and nuanced performances.
But in the last decade or so, Willis has pretty much been reserving his talents exclusively for bargain-bin content that requires little-to-no effort on his part. In many ways, Glass marked his biggest opportunity in the last decade to show off his range once again to an audience longing to see him do something truly great once more.
Sadly, this is not the kind of Bruce Willis performance we get.
Instead, Willis frequently feels completely disinterested and film often feels as if it is deliberately cutting around him. David Dunn should be the protagonist of this film, yet he feels more like a minor player because Willis is just not in very much of the film after the first act.
The most side-splitting instance of Willis feeling like he was literally carted over to the set and propped up on his mark to deliver his line is the late-in-the-game retort, "We've still got to talk about this kneeling thing", a line he delivers with all the chutzpah of a fifth-grade drama student desperately longing for the lunch bell to ring.