Glass: 10 Most Unintentionally Funny Bad Moments

Every single piece of advertising for Glass has sold the movie pretty squarely as one thing; a battle royale showdown between the unbreakable David Dunn and the fractured personalities of The Horde. So if nothing else, it was fair to expect Shyamalan to bring his own very distinct visual sense to some rousing action setpieces in the film, right?

Apparently not.

It's honestly a stretch to even call the 'action setpieces' in Glass action setpieces. They are blocked, choreographed, filmed, and edited so horribly that it's legitimately beyond belief that these sequences made it into a feature theatrical release.

Over the course of the film, there are two fight scenes and each one literally just consists of Bruce Willis and James McAvoy grabbing each other by the shoulders and making lots of grunting noises. All of this, while Shyamalan's camera inexplicably locks onto one of them, further distorting our view and reading of the actual fight.

What is presumably an attempt at putting the audience literally in the fight, instead distances them from it and makes the sequences practically illegible.

The end result is the cinematic equivalent of a two-year-old just smashing their action figures together. It is painfully obvious that Shyamalan and crew just opted to try and make up most of this action on the day of shooting and boy, does it not work at all. These sequences are completely devoid of tension, beats, and suspense. They're just laughably awful white noise.