[wpdevart_youtube]95ghQs5AmNk[/wpdevart_youtube]GLASS ****
Dir: M. Night Shyamalan (12A, 129 mins)
A sneaky sequel from M. Night Shyamalan after the success of horror movie Split two years ago. After a run of underperforming films, writer/director Shyamalan rediscovered his mojo with Split, starring James McAvoy in a multiple personality/body horror plit. That’s now allowed him to revisit the universe of his second film Unbreakable. The 2000 film starred Bruce Willis as David Dunn, an ordinary man who discovers he has superhuman strength, but was played without histrionics. He was pitted against brittle-boned genius Elijah Samuel L Jackson in a slow-burn drama that worked well in its milieu, way before Marvel’s superhero explosion. This new film sets the same characters against each other with James McAvoy’s character from Split thrown into the mix, a fascinatingly bizarre mashup. Confined to a mental institution under psychologist Sarah Paulson’s care, the three of them face off against each other, with Jackson manipulating McAvoy’s Beast personality to his own nefarious ends. Hopefully this can bring Bruce Willis’ sleepwalking career back from the brink whilst proving a worthy successor to the original Unbreakable. Shyamalan will no doubt throw in several twists, and an inevitable cameo, but he seems to be recovering some of the earlier film-making chutzpah that brought us The Sixth Sense and may conjure up a satisfying lowkey superhero/villain teamup. Opens Jan 18