Bruce Willis’ Failed 2019 Movie With 37% Tomatometer Continues a Nostalgia Trend in Netflix Top
The film initially came as a sequel for a superhero hit from the 2000s.
Summary:
- Bruce Willis finished his acting career a couple of years ago, but his 5-year-old sequel to the 2000’s superhero hit is dominating Netflix right now.
- The movie was released back in 2019 and showed impressive results in the box office, though couldn’t really count on the critics’ favorable reviews.
- Despite a controversial reputation, the film demonstrated the actors’ good performance and thus became a good final touch in Bruce Willis’ acting career.
Bruce Willis may not ever return to acting after his health rapidly declined in 2022 because of frontotemporal dementia, but his movies, even not the most successful ones, are still being appreciated by fans across the world.
Now that the actor is having a deserved rest in retirement, one of his films from 5 years ago is showing impressive results in Netflix’s top — unlike with the critics upon its release.
2019’s Glass that has a star-packed cast with, except for Willis, James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Poulson and Samuel L. Jackson was released as a sequel to the 2000’s superhero thriller Unbreakable and to the 2016’s psychological thriller Split.
In Unbreakable, the plot follows David Dunn, portrayed by Bruce Willis, who, after being the only survivor in a train crash with no injuries at all, discovers that he possesses some unique superhuman abilities.
The 2016’s Split, as many may know, is concentrated on Kevin Crumb, whose role James McAvoy got to play, a man with dissociative identity disorder that embarks on a kidnap of three teenage girls who he later on hides in an eerie basement.
The 2019’s Glass brings both characters together as they’re placed in a nuthouse where they’ll get to reconsider their supernatural abilities.
Coming as a concluding chapter for the Unbreakable trilogy almost 20 years after the first film’s release, Glass embraced Bruce Willis and director M. Night Shyamalan ’s joint hopes for the commercially and critically successful ending of the story — eventually the film succeeded in only one of the two criteria.
Despite being called the weakest film of the whole trilogy, Glass did quite well in the box office managing to gross almost $250 million with the initial budget of $20 million. The critics weren’t that favorable though — the movie ended up with only 37% on Rotten Tomatoes against quite solid 70% for 2000’s Unbreakable.
Yet still Glass comes as one more proof that not everything is about critics as the film is currently being on Netflix’s top as the third most-watched film in the US 5 years after its theatrical release. Glass may also owe its unexpected success to Bruce Willis whose recently finished acting career definitely has some more hidden gems to unveil.