“Have you ever been to a comic book convention?” she sneers. The pernicious influence of comic books is an obsession.
Almost a comic figure at times in her pontificating, she’s a veritable Nurse Ratched for the genre fans who are expected to be this movie’s audience. Staple ( Sarah Paulson), whose mission it is to convince self-described superheroes that their abilities are nothing more than what an agitated normal person could do. So, the central characters of two films are reunited in a third, as the mental health professionals try to cure their delusions of being “special.”
Glass, the now seemingly out-of-it mass killer behind the aforementioned trainwreck. So, it’s not surprising when both the Overseer and The Horde end up apprehended in the course of battle, and sent to a hospital for the criminally insane.Īs happens in movies, it’s the same hospital that holds Elijah Price, a.k.a. A masked vigilante, as any such person would opt to become, he’s operating as a hooded figure nicknamed The Overseer, and is every bit as much a target of a police manhunt as his quarry. He’s continuing his modus operandi of kidnapping groups of teenage girls (cheerleaders preferred), and introducing them to each persona before dispatching them.īut he is now targeted by Unbreakable’s David Dunn ( Bruce Willis), a man who, after being the sole survivor of a horrific train crash, discovered he was indestructible and capable of absorbing memories of other people’s misdeeds at a touch. Among them: The Beast, a superhuman with an occasional taste for human flesh. Kevin Crumb (a still-impressive James McAvoy) remains on the loose, a multiple-personality case nicknamed The Horde, with 20-something individuals living inside him. Jackson) takes place weeks after the events in Split. Glass (the title refers to Unbreakable’s physically fragile evil mastermind Mr. But Shyamalan still says it, in an unfocused movie with some interesting ideas, and so much expositional dialogue in place of action, it’s sometimes more of a lecture than a thriller.
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