Glass: 10 Most Unintentionally Funny Bad Moments

Part of the reason why the narrative proper of Glass becomes so dull and so uninteresting is that Shyamalan's script is bending over backward to service his own meta-narrative, which is essentially just using the film as a vessel through which to recount the mythology of his own career.

From his own "positive thinking" cameo early on to the fact that the film is literally all about an organization trying to convince the gifted characters that they never had gifts to begin with and force them into questioning their own abilities, the film meta-narrative is blatantly telling the story of Shyamalan's own struggles within the Hollywood system.

This even goes so far as to dictate the film's final twist, as the only way Mr. Glass could really get the "truth" out to the masses was to get outside of the "system" and to hand-deliver it to them, just as Shyamalan got out of the studio system and now self-finances his films to have greater creative control, thus delivering his "truth".

Sadly, all of this subtext is so blatant and obvious that it practically supersedes the film's text in the process. It makes it feel like Shyamalan was worried less about making Glass his actual crowning achievement of a comeback to blockbuster cinema (as it should have been) and more about taking a not-yet-earned victory lap. He puts the cart squarely before the horse and falls flat on his face in the process.