I just watched Knives Out because people told me it was just as good as Glass Onion.
It was fun, but not as good. I didn’t buy the whole ‘nice old rich man. All his kids suck so feel bad for him’ thing. Like buddy, you raised them.
Other then that it was awesome, but not as awesome as Glass Onion.
I didn’t find that about Glass Onion, but only because I found the fact that not-Elon-Musk had done it to be blindingly obvious as soon as they did the big twist. I mean they have the guy go “well he could have but he’d have to be stupid” after lampshading how stupid he is for the last hour.
I also found Glass Onion to be more of a muder mystery in terms of setting. Contrived ways to isolate a bunch of terrible people in the Murder Zone is a standard Murder mystery plot device and one I’m quite fond of.
I still think it has too much Rian Johnson “I am trying to deconstruct things without having anything to reconstruct the thing into aren’t I clever” in it, but it was still pretty good despite that.
I did find that part to be fun in the end, simply because they explicitly said it was simpler that it looked via the whole “glass onion” metaphor. All my gut instinct was telling me he was at the root of it all yet I tried to tell myself that it wasn’t that simple. The movie actually went out of its way to tell the viewer “don’t get too distracted by the details, it really is straight forward.” He was the only one with any real motive.
It was in the second half that I felt the movie found some of its footing despite becoming more over-the-top. It felt like something that could have been figured out if you just stepped back and looked at it. My chief criticism is the first half feels clumsy and confusing after getting more clarity. It is all built on a twist of “Betcha didn’t expect it is her secret twin sister!”. It was strangely written as a big clever twist but I don’t recall any breadcrumbs leading you to believe that she should be dead. I wish it was written so the other characters were really freaked out by her like she was a ghost, even confronting her asking how she is alive because they saw a news article saying she died. Instead most of them just being uncomfortable because the prior legal battle made things awkward.
Yes, but the movie can’t reveal why. I am describing a script re-write where they give viewers a bit more foreshadowing of who she is. You understand his reaction later, but only after the out of left field reveal of who she is.
He obviously is freaked out, but considering how everyone else was bothered, it kind of seems like just an extension of the same feeling everyone has. I don’t recall him pulling her aside and either trying to cut her a deal or threaten her (maybe he did? I can’t remember, but I don’t remember them saying she should be dead). Either way he quietly realizes what is probably going on and moves forward.
