Middle of the trilogy and middle of the road.

Rating: 5/10 (24 January 2019)

To be honest the trailer didn't impress me at all, so I wasn't going to watch it until I found out that it's the middle film in a trilogy starting with Unbreakable, which was a fantastic film.
McAvoy was undoubtedly the highlight of the main film, that said I think most serious actors would probably come out well in a role that demands they play multiple personalities. It's sort of what acting is all about, so this alone isn't worthy of the 10/10 plaudits that his performance seems to be garnering from some people here.
The rest of the film shifts between "meh" and *cringe* throughout. The "kidnapped girl" characters are hardly developed further than "kidnapped girl", with the aside of a cheap abuse backstory involving - you guessed it - an uncle. The psychiatrist is equally 2 dimensional, her only purpose throughout the film being to exposit McAvoy's character, which felt like a huge wasted opportunity considering Buckley's acting chops.
Anyway, I sat through all of that blah to be rewarded in the last two minutes by a blast of the still utterly chilling Unbreakable soundtrack and a very clumsy bit of scriptwriting hinting at Glass, which I have higher hopes for.