![]() ![]() Unfortunately the reveal is not (to borrow a word used in the film) perspicacious, or unexpected enough. Unlike Unbreakable, however, it doesn’t leave the layers there for the audience to peel back, but the director himself removes each one. There’s a lot going on in this film, some of it spelt out rather literally, some of it visually conveyed, as it should be, and some of it trademark Shyamalan. He celebrates the mythology surrounding comic books, but also questions whether those ideas and archetypes can twist our view of reality. He questions ideas of heroes, superheroes and ordinary people. This is the Shyamalan version of a cinematic universe, but it’s one he’s not overly attached to. Shyamalan also introduces characters who connect the three central players to their past – Elijah’s mother (played once more by Charlayne Woodard), David’s son (Spencer Treat Clark, who played Joseph in Unbreakable 19 years ago), and Kevin’s former victim Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy, who played the same part in Split). Jackson is clearly enjoying playing a man with a god complex, whose machinations have had a cataclysmic impact on David and Kevin. This gives the actor 24 alters to play with – among them a nine year old boy, a matronly woman, a beast – and he seamlessly flits from one to the other with tiny physical and vocal shifts.Īs the unbreakable David, who can also see visions when he touches people, Willis is adequately stern. The story builds nicely, with Paulson’s fine rendition of the unorthodox professional and James McAvoy dominating as Kevin, who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Jackson), who prefers to go by first name Mister, second name Glass. ![]() The third inmate is the heavily sedated, brittle-bodied Elijah Price (Samuel L. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson) has three days to cure these men of their delusions of grandeur. David and Kevin (and his multiple personalities) are interned in a high-end psychiatric hospital where Dr. ![]()
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