Glass Reviews: 12 Early Reactions You Need To See

4. It's Constrained By Its Low Budget

"90% of the movie is confined to the sterile interiors of the sanitarium, where all of the characters are left to rot as Shyamalan maneuvers them towards a clumsy third act confrontation (and the very unsatisfying reveals that await on the other side)." - IndieWire

"The majority of his running time is dominated by dull, painfully verbal group-therapy sessions at a secret lab, where McAvoy’s captured cannibal, known as the Horde, sits alongside Bruce Willis’s somber avenging angel David Dunn (a.k.a. the Overseer) and Samuel L. Jackson’s Mister Glass, a brittle-boned villain in a wheelchair who’s prone to speechifying when he’s not behaving catatonic." - Time Out

Shyamalan has been thriving in the lower-budget arena as of late, and Split in particular proved what the director was capable of with a mere $9 million and minimal executive meddling.

Glass meanwhile came with a $20 million price tag, an extremely low figure for a superhero movie led by three bonafide movie stars, yet ironically, several reviews have mentioned how Shyamalan this time doesn't seem to use his budgetary restrictions to his advantage.

The most common complaint is that so much of Glass is set inside Dr. Staple's psychiatric facility, which isn't terribly exciting and sees the characters doing far too much talking and not enough action.

One almost frets to say it, but perhaps Glass would've actually benefited from a mid-range budget - in the $40-50 million realm - to give Shyamalan a bigger sandbox to play with.