'Glass': Bruce Willis Hunts a Killer as Samuel L. Jackson Steals His Scenes

Pursuing Crumb is Willis’ paranoid avenger, supernatural security guard David Dunn. While Dunn tries to remain under the radar and low-key (represented by Willis with a permanent lockjaw and none of the cheeky dialogue he's famous for), he's a super-strong Dudley Do-Right type who can't help but go after Crumb before he kills again.

Enter sleek corporate psychiatrist Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson, 44), an arrogant know-it-all who's so focused on the crazy that she can't differentiate between heroes and villains. Does she really toss Dunn and Crumb in Raven Hill Memorial Psychiatric Research Center with brittle-boned bad boy Elijah Price, aka Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson)? That can't be a good idea. It's not.

Jackson goes all Snakes on a Plane, ranging from a catatonic invalid with dark eyes like hallways into hell to a criminal mastermind who sees an opportunity in joining with Crumb to escape confinement and loose hell upon the meek citizenry. If this is not the $1 billion star's acting highlight, credit him with stealing every scene he's in and making some in the audience long for a Price standalone movie.

While the nerdy dialogue ruminates thoughtfully on good and evil, reality as comic book and comic-book reality, the film's peaks are the loopy set pieces. You'll relish a full-bore physical finale between Dunn and Crumb, in which the unbreakable hero encounters the cracked villain without Marvel overkill, while Mr. Glass snarks on the sidelines.

Is the Glass half-empty or half-full? Just let it break, suspend disbelief and let the M. Night rise with three actors who always entertain.