Glass: 10 Most Unintentionally Funny Bad Moments

2. The Tower

Glass 2019
Disney

A big part of Glass' third act revolves around Mr. Glass at least pretending that his masterplan is to use The Horde to break out of containment and go to this big new Tower in downtown Philadelphia, because he knows Dunn will have to come to stop them and that that will reveal their superheroic abilities to the whole world.

However, Dunn winds up intercepting the diabolical duo in the parking lot of the Hospital instead. The rest of the climax unfolds in this parking lot, with a poorly composited CGI rendering of this Tower in the background.

Frequently during this final act, one of the characters will suddenly remember the alleged plan is to go to the Tower, only for something or someone to pull them back and convince them to stay in the parking lot, assumedly to agree with the film's already-tight budget. This happens at least five times and it grows increasingly hilarious each time.

This may seem like a nitpick but it is indicative of a larger issue; the film as a whole looks and feels insanely cheap. Shyamalan rather infamously self-financed the film and its $20 million budget but practically none of that money is visible on-screen.

From the incredibly lackluster action scenes, to the incredibly rough-around-the-edges CGI like the glory shot of the Tower, to moments where it feels like the narrative of the film itself is bending over backward to cut costs, this becomes outright hysterical.

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