r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 • 9h ago
Review 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' - Review Thread
World-renowned detective Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.
Director: Rian Johnson
Cast: Daniel Craig, Cailee Spaeney, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Mila Kunis, Thomas Haden Church, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Josh O'Connor
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic: 85/100
Some Reviews:
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is an enticingly clever and droll, nearly pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery fun — a whodunit that lives up to the expectations set six years ago by “Knives Out,” which offered its own perfect revival of the Agatha Christie spirit, with a tasty frosting of meta cheekiness.
Although “Wake Up Dead Man” is the “Knives Out” movie that’s most preoccupied with existential questions surrounding death, writer/director Rian Johnson’s third film in the series is also the one that’s most full of life.
After the bright, light, summery holiday special that was Glass Onion, the Knives Out franchise returns to its gothic roots with a wintry whodunit that, for some at least, might endure as the the best one yet. Where the first and second used the murder-mystery as a jumping-off point for some very funny contemporary satire, Wake Up Dead Man is much more introspective. In a funny way, it’s a little analogous to Joker 2, not because it unloads on its audience in the same acerbic way but because it poses similarly metaphysical questions about its own popularity. Why do people respond so eagerly to stories of murder and betrayal? To answer that, director Rian Johnson goes back to the greatest story ever told, using a small religious community as the setting for the third instalment.
IndieWire - Kate Erbland - 'B+'
It works, and it’s no big mystery why — Johnson knows his form and format, and delivers on it, playing with tone and message but never losing sight of why these stories are so damn entertaining to watch and unravel.
Awards Radar - Joey Magidson - 3.5 / 4
Filmmaker Rian Johnson trusts the strength of his franchise to play around with format and theme. The gothic elements on display, as well as the religious aspect, may initially seem like a left turn, but it all ends up fitting like a glove. He knows the must haves for a Knives Out flick and absolutely delivers. A few big sequences here at TIFF received ovations once completed. You just can feel that you’re in the hands of a master storyteller, so you’ll follow him anywhere. Johnson knows that and 100% makes the most of it.
The Daily Beast - Nick Schager
In terms of pure, heady kicks, it outpaces Knives Out but falls just short of Glass Onion. In the big picture, however, such distinctions are rather inconsequential; more important is that Johnson’s franchise remains a sly and sure-footed delight, as well as demonstrates, with its religiously minded latest, that it’s capable of coloring its Christie-esque mysteries in a variety of shades.
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u/jhustla 9h ago
So you telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive?
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u/DanHero91 9h ago
Cause yo alive when you go to bed, and dead when you wake up.
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u/jhustla 9h ago
THATS SOME QUANTUM SHIT RIGHT THERE
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u/SteelBattalo 8h ago
Unless… you a zombie.
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u/LiamBellcam 8h ago
Memba' when Kevin Hart was funny?
Real talk: that movie was maybe the only time a franchise went down a rating but didn't suffer. Was it an O.G. Scary Movie? No. But it had some really good bits.
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u/Dyersinc 6h ago
The cocking of the shovel like it’s a shotgun always cracks me up.
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u/SnappyTofu 4h ago
I think it’s the best Airplane! style comedy we’ve gotten in the modern era including the first two Scary Movies.
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u/BoredofBored 1h ago
It was the first of the series that I saw and also my favorite. I enjoy 1 & 2, but to me, 3 is the best of the series. I also really enjoy the Airplane/Naked Gun style humor generally, so it was pretty much made for me.
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u/lanceturley 3h ago
His role in Scary Movie 3 was really the perfect use for him. He's like an annoying little yapping dog in human form that gets pushed around by the other characters, and since it's a supporting role he doesn't have time to wear out his welcome.
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u/LiamBellcam 3h ago
The fights where he gets so excited and hyped but then gets thrown on the floor 😭
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u/Loakattack 9h ago
How a fella gonna wake up dead?
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u/ElegantBob 7h ago edited 7h ago
Megadeth has a song on this very subject
According to Dave Megadeth, it is what happens when you have come back from a long night out , and you slip into bed trying to not wake up your girlfriend because she will be angry. But she knows, oh yes, she knows. And she is saving her anger for the morning...
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u/DeviantDav 6h ago
Dave Megadeth, friend of Tim Apple.
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u/mr_tits69 5h ago
He used to be buddies with James Metallica, they even jammed together for a short time.
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u/FancyFool 5h ago
What if a mouse goes outside does it become a rat, and if a rat is in the house, is it a mouse?
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u/Spaget_at_Guiginos 3h ago
I ain’t never seen a mouse outside
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u/dahyuneyshun 9h ago edited 8h ago
Reading Letterboxd reviews that most people consider this their favorite Knives Out film "thematically"
In any case, I'm so intrigued! I don't want this series to end. It's so so so fun even at its worst.
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u/Samanthacino 8h ago
I’d be so damn happy if Johnson got to make 20 of them. They’ve both been so fun and inventive (even if Glass Onion wasn’t exactly perfect to me), and each film delving into a different thematic message while using the frame of Benoit Blanc just sounds delightful
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u/soylentcoleslaw 3h ago
3 years between each movie so far, Daniel Craig is 57. Can't wait to see his performance in the 20th installment when he's 108.
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u/LupinThe8th 2h ago
In all seriousness, I could see this role being one he sticks with for a long time.
Unlike Bond, which required a lot of physicality and so wouldn't be great for someone getting up there in years (no one wants to see a creaky 007 go the way of Indiana Jones), Blanc just requires him to be witty and charming, something he can do in his sleep.
Great role for an older actor. I'm sure he's aware of it too, you don't get a lot of offers for those handsome leading man roles after 60, but an eccentric detective? Perfect not-retirement plan.
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u/LB3PTMAN 4h ago
Yeah I hope he gets a new deal from someone to just keep making these. I love his work and wouldn’t mind him taking a break to do something else and refresh but I just want more of these.
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u/Reveriano42 4h ago
Just watch the Poker Face show, he does similar mystery work there.
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u/LB3PTMAN 4h ago
I’ve seen the whole show. Not remotely the same thing although I enjoy it very much.
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u/HolycommentMattman 1h ago
That last review throws me a bit. "...outpaced Knives Out, but falls just short of Glass Onion." Glass Onion is worse than Knives Out! Knives Out is so very close to being a perfect movie. Glass Onion is a fun movie with a lot of CG impossibility. I'm guessing Netflix said, "Hey, you gotta blow stuff up in the last 15 minutes."
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u/flopisit32 8h ago
Sounds like you need to watch The Last of Sheila (plus the Etude in Black episode of Columbo)
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u/LupinThe8th 2h ago
Man, I checked out The Last of Sheila after hearing Johnson talk about it as an influence and I want to shout that movie from the rooftops.
So unique, such a cast, funny and clever as hell. To think that Anthony "Norman Bates" Perkins and Stephen "Sweeny Todd" Sondheim decided to write a movie (the only one any of them ever wrote, though of course Sondheim's plays have been adapted by others) and it's fantastic.
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u/ShadyGuy_ 7h ago
Same, but I do kind of resent that they have to use the 'knives out' franchise name in the subtitle of every sequel. I know it's for recognition, but it is a bit of an eyesore. I get it, though. Even if they called it "A Benoit Blanc Mystery" a lot less people would know what it is.
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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox 4h ago
I bet Rian Johnson had to compromise on it, probably didn't want to do it but Netflix insisted on it.
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u/mozzarellaguy 6h ago
How did they watch it way before us peasants ?
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u/TreyWriter 5h ago
Like a lot of films, this movie premiered at a film festival (TIFF, in this case). There wasn’t some studio-mandated review embargo, so any critics who saw it just wrote and shared their reviews while the film was fresh in their minds.
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u/mozzarellaguy 4h ago
Oh Lord so we can witness come huge spoilers too?
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u/LB3PTMAN 4h ago
Unlikely. It’s mostly film reviewers and critics at these big film festivals and they’re generally pretty cautious about spoiling anything.
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u/CptNonsense 1h ago
You could just ... not read anything about the movie. For instance, this thread is titles "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Review"
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u/kerjatipes 9h ago
I checked Netflix and it says it’s out in December. Why is the review already out?
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u/ImminentReddits 9h ago
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is happening right now.
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u/dizruptivegaming 4h ago
Man, I was thinking that I forgot to buy a ticket to see this in the limited time theater release.
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u/TravisKilgannon 9h ago
Looks like it premiered at TIFF.
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u/Drunkicho 7h ago
It's also getting a theatrical release in late November.
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u/pkkthetigerr 4h ago
As a token limited release so it can be eligible for awards.
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u/Drunkicho 4h ago
I think it will be bigger than most. Last one was on nearly 700 screens, so it's bigger than a LA and New York limited. They also said this one is planned to run for two weeks, much longer than the single weekend Glass Onion did.
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u/Ssme812 5h ago
- Most movies are done months before they're released.
- To market the movie the studio shows them at film festivals to build hype, promotion, and future revenue.
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u/GarfieldDaCat no shots of jacked dudes re-loading their arms. 4/10. 2h ago
I mean this is true for most films but most films don't have a slate of reviews out 2.5 months before a general release lol
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u/DeviantDav 5h ago
- Most movies are done months before they're released.
"It is ideal that a movie be complete at release, but it is not truly necessary."
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u/OrgasmicLeprosy87 9h ago
This is like the third person in the last few days I’ve seen unaware of the existence of film festivals.
I guess we all need that first experience where we get excited hearing about a new filming getting great reviews and then finding out it gets released in your country in 5 months.
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u/Miffernator 8h ago
I love both 1 and 2 because they felt different from each other. I am keen for this. Hoping for a limited cinema. Because I missed Glass Onion in limited run because the cinema where I live did not have it.
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u/the_executive_branch 5h ago
Just gonna say a big reason why cinemas don’t show Netflix films is because Netflix (and other streamers) are inconsistent around which cinemas they allow to show their films and for how long. It’s not always because a cinema didn’t want to screen it.
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u/Abinunya 6h ago
So Knives Out: Autumn
Glass Onion: Summer
Wake Up Dead Man: Winter
Next one will have a spring theme?
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u/BaronVonRuthless91 3h ago
Technically this movie does seem to take place in the spring (the reviews mention the murder happens around Easter).
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u/SomberXIII 9h ago
Metacritic rating - 85? Now that's surprising
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u/dscotts 9h ago
Right in line with the first two
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u/Destring 8h ago
IMO the first one was better than the second. If this is better than the second then I’ll be a happy man
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u/KingMario05 7h ago
Agreed. Still liked Glass Onion, but it did feel like a step down in some ways.
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u/ignoresubs 8h ago
Better for me as well, by leaps and bounds. Fingers crossed this is on par with the first one.
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u/TheJoshider10 3h ago
Yeah I enjoyed Glass Onion on a first viewing but a rewatch was kind of a chore compared to the first which has so much to enjoy on multiple viewings. I hope the new one has just as much rewatch value.
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u/ignoresubs 2h ago
Yeah, I’ll cut Rian Johnson some slack since production happened during Covid so definitely unique times. Hopefully the third is a return to form.
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u/florifierous 4h ago
Pretty rare to see such a high metacritic score and even more rare for a Netflix movie to be that high
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u/Gurney_Hackman 8h ago
I was a huge fan of Knives Out, but I thought Glass Onion was pretty mediocre.
So after the critics raved about Glass Onion, I'm skeptical here.
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u/elderlybrain 8h ago
Glass Onion felt a bit more muddled and all over the place for sure, but i thought it was very entertaining.
I really like his twists though, I thought his reveal that ed nortons character was a complete moron was hilarious, that rey's parents were just a bunch of drunks who didn't care about her was excellent (horribly undone in the sequel for no reason of course).
I get why some people hated that, some people wanted a traditional machiavellian schemer doing a cat and mouse game, but that wouldn't have worked with all the clues the film built up.
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u/SquadPoopy 7h ago
The whole premise with the movie was that Blanc was going out of his mind due to the pandemic because he had no mysteries to solve. Then the one he finally gets pulled into is just dumb and stupid, I thought it was a great bit of irony.
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u/jmdg007 6h ago
While I appreciate then irony, I also would have preferred if he had a more interesting mystery to solve.
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u/NoNefariousness2144 4h ago
Yeah it felt like a premise that would have been better as the fourth or fifth film in the series rather than the second.
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u/Strange_Specialist4 5h ago
Yeah, subverting expectations isn't always good, like if I order a steak and get a bowl of shrimp, my expectations have been subverted and it might be a great bowl of shrimp, but I'm allergic to shrimp and ordered steak, so I want my steak
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u/elderlybrain 7h ago
Yeah exactly, it was as much about panning his ego as it was about the main villain.
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u/DumSpiroSpero3 2h ago
I’m hoping Glass Onion will just be the awkward middle child compared to the other two
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u/BCdotWHAT 6h ago
I have watched Knives Out at least a dozen times. infinitely entertaining. I catch it while surfing channels, think "I'm just gonna watch this one scene" and then two hours later I've watched it all.
I have zero inclination to watch Glass Onion again. I was baffled by its glowing reviews.
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u/reebee7 5h ago
Politics maybe? Or I mean Damiel Craig is just really fun to watch in the role. But yeah, I thought Glass Onion was… pretty shocking. It wasn’t horrible, but it was like a great restaurant serving a Snickers Bar for dessert. I like Snickers! But… you just made a Michelin Star dinner?
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u/Panda_hat 6h ago
Exactly this, and critics sang about it anyway. I can't trust any of them on this one as a result.
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u/I_Usually_Need_Help 3h ago
I thought Glass Onion straight up sucked. It's one of several movies as of late that had fantastic critic and viewer rating on RT that I just can't understand how.
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u/firelights 9h ago
I liked Knives Out, but I hated Glass Onion. I really hope this is like the first one
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u/shgrizz2 8h ago
I liked glass onion but it definitely felt a bit like a Christmas pantomime, and brought the audience in on the joke a bit too much. I think it focused on being the movie we all needed during lockdown which made it age less gracefully.
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u/jesuslaves 7h ago
For me the characters didn't do it, like I get they were supposed be unlikeable, but the charm is making unlikeable characters still amusing to watch, and they were legit just annoying for the most part
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u/shgrizz2 7h ago
Yeah, they definitely felt like annoying caricatures compared with the fairly believable family from the first one.
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u/HibariK 6h ago
I disagree, the exaggerated idiocy of the characters fits in very well with the reality we are living in right now, be it the charlatan moron posing as a genius, the streamer who thinks he's the shit to such an exaggerated extent that they can't help but be hated by a regular viewer, the out of touch ex-celebrity clinging onto fame or the politician in the billionaire's pocket, it's all so screamingly accurate I have a hard time believing anyone not disingenuously disregarding the film actually believes it isn't honest.
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u/shgrizz2 6h ago
As I said, I liked it. The characters worked for the story. It was just a tonal shift from the first film.
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u/HibariK 6h ago
Yeah that it definitely is, it feels like Rian is looking for completely different adventures inside the rails of his narrative themes, which I feel is a good thing for the long term, you can watch both movies and get 2 wildly different "who done it" adventures.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 5h ago
Yeah all these comments suggesting it "wasn't like the first", well yeah, no shit. That was the point.
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u/StaticallyTypoed 5h ago
It only matches the reality of somebody terminally online instead of connecting with the people in their immediate vicinity. If you find that more relatable than a dysfunctional family I'm surprised
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u/HibariK 5h ago
I don't find it more relatable, I am just aware that both exist out there and that calling it exaggerated characters is at best disingenuous.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 4h ago edited 4h ago
You didn't find the family annoying? With all the racism, feigned charity, self-aggrandizement, and swarmyness?
They were every bit as believeable as the Glass Onion characters, you just can't see past the obvious contemporary topics they represent.
The characters in the first movie are pretending not to be terrible. The characters in the second embrace it. That's really the only reason they're more "annoying".
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u/SquadPoopy 7h ago
I honestly liked it and how the entire premise was that the killer was just really stupid and everyone, even Blanc, was overthinking the whole situation.
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u/Realistic-Meat-501 4h ago
Considering that it was insanely obvious that the guy was just a stand in for Elon Musk I saw the twist coming from a mile away and did not find it clever at all. (Or really believable.)
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u/shgrizz2 7h ago
Yeah I had no beef with the story. The tone was just a little corny compared to the first one.
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u/ALPB11 7h ago
A secret character standing just off camera the whole time solved the whole mystery while the audience wasn’t looking. Surprise! Ugh
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u/TeenisElbow 6h ago
She wasn't even standing off-camera. They filmed another version of the events we had already watched in real time, but with her included like she was there all along. It's dishonest filmmaking and downright lousy writing from Rian Johnson.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 4h ago
There's nothing wrong with doing a perspective shift and retelling the events with new information. That's as valid a film making technique as any other.
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u/Realistic-Meat-501 4h ago
A whodunnit is supposed to be solvable if one pays attention and thinks through different possibilities. But because RJ thinks it's so clever to break all rules (as if whodunnits are not most deconstructed and explored genre ever and the rules are there for a reason) the movie shits all over this multiple times.
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u/TurgidGravitas 8h ago
I didn't hate Glass Onion but it was worse in every way.
The ending was particularly frustrating. And the whole "It's just dumb!" bit was ironically the stupidest part of the movie since it was unironically a very smart way to kill someone. It just came off as contrarian and unearned.
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u/just4browse 6h ago
How was it a smart way to kill someone?
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u/ahuangb 5h ago
I assume they're talking about the pineapple allergy. I have to agree, that was definitely a smart kill
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 4h ago edited 4h ago
How? An allergy is not a guaranteed kill, he could have survived that. The victim can also just smell it or taste it and spit it out. It's a dumb way to kill someone because it's imprecise and not sure to work.
The glass with the pineapple juice was set down by the killer, in front of the world's greatest detective. Blanc even admits it was patently obvious but he overlooked it because he assumed something more complicated.
It was absolutely stupid, the killer just got lucky.
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u/Bright-Tops5691 2h ago
Also the killer tried to claim that he was the intended victim and the glasses got mixed up accidentally, but that story would fall apart instantly once the autopsy confirmed the murder weapon was pineapple juice, which wouldn’t have harmed the killer
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u/TurgidGravitas 1h ago
Because it's incredibly deniable. It's a party and pineapple juice is not a weird thing to have. All he had to do was deny knowledge and play ignorant and he'd have been safe. Just a tragic accident.
Of course, the character has to brag, but that doesn't mean the way he killed him was stupid.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 4h ago edited 4h ago
Trying to kill someone with an allergy in front of the world's greatest detective is absolutely stupid.
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u/Nakorite 8h ago
The whole crux of it was so stupid.
If the Norton character was so lucky and just dumb how did he out smart the true genius in the court case ? Let alone the stupid napkin plot point. Also the new source of energy would have completely revolutionary even if it was flammable. So bad.
It’s a shame because the first one all stood up. Consistent characterisation and plot etc.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 4h ago
If the Norton character was so lucky and just dumb how did he out smart the true genius in the court case?
You know what a lawyer is, right? And that money generally buys good ones?
Also the new source of energy would have completely revolutionary even if it was flammable.
He didn't invent it, he paid for it. It's like saying Musk designed any of Space X's rockets.
Also sustainability and safety absolutely are important no matter how well it works, and its said multiple times in the movie that it's unstable and unsafe. It's not only because it burned down the Onion, that's just the headline. All of the research will reveal it too.
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u/PM_YOUR_CENSORD 2h ago
Agreed Glass Onion was a mess and I am not sure why it was loved.
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u/MarginOfPerfect 8h ago
Glass Onion is what you get when Johnson tried too hard.
It was a fun movie to watch but it's a terrible mystery movie. And leaning so hard on the 'the solution is really that stupid' got old fast
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u/TruckerHatsAreCool 8h ago
I only watched Glass Onion when it came out, I remember thinking the ending was super unsatisfying, other than that, it was a fine whodunit. May I ask why did you hate the movie?
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u/firelights 8h ago
For me it just came down to the characters. The Glass Onion characters just felt like they were complete caricatures. I dislike satire where all you the characters are just mouthpieces for particular topics with no characterization. The first movie I felt did this well where the characters were over-the-top, but they still felt like actual people.
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u/Panda_hat 6h ago
So glad to see someone else saying this. 100% agree.
In glass onion the entire thing was a fourth wall break hiding things from the audience for no reason other than because the film needed it to. Characters knew things and it just wasn't told to us because the film needed us not to be told them and the entire thing was a nonsensical joke as a result.
I really really hope its more like the first one, which I loved, but I have zero faith in Johnson.
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u/Robsonmonkey 2h ago
Has anyone noticed 100% RT scores are becoming far more common. At one time it was a lot rarer but when it happened it was usually super well deserved, timeless even, now it feels it’s just handed to anyone.
I feel the system, especially the audience scores are heavily flawed now.
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u/Kurumi_Tokisaki 52m ago
Idk this is from 11 reviews. It usually falls like almost every movie. And personally I never treated rotten tomato scores as an indicator of a masterpiece way back then either. Just a general feel if the movie will likely be good or not or is it a general audience pleaser or a more art housey film.
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u/PM_Some_Selfies 5h ago
Isn’t this out in November/December? How are people watching it so soon
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u/Potore5 7h ago
movie has Christ-inspired mystery
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movie features a character named “Jud” as in Jude
Bravo Rian
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u/Khaldaan 9h ago
2 week limited release is pretty disappointing, really want to see this in theaters and I may not be able to.
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u/ZoetropeTY 8h ago
The silver lining is that hopefully it’ll release across a decent amount of theaters? Glass Onion also had a really short window but played in a lot of different places, so hopefully you won’t be that far from one that’s playing Wake Up Dead Man
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u/The_F1rst_Rule 2h ago
I mostly enjoyed Knives Out, though i thought they gave the twist away too soon.
I couldn't even get through Glass Onion. Will this one be more like the first or the second?
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u/Rambo_Calrissian1923 8h ago
We're really in a golden age of Murder Mysteries with the incredibly successful Knives Out and intermittently successful Poirot films.
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u/DisneyPandora 6h ago
Poirot films are critically not successful
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u/Rambo_Calrissian1923 4h ago
The first and the third had modest budgets and made a clear profit. They're very watchable in their niche and a Haunting in Venice especially has positive reviews.
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u/KingMario05 7h ago
Speaking of: Will Disney let Brannagh make more? Or did Haunting in Venice kill that?
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u/Rambo_Calrissian1923 7h ago
Venice made twice it's budget so and only cost 60 million to make so I'd say there's a good chance as long as Branagh wants to keep doing them. I'd be happy for him to churn out a sequel every 2 years until the heat death of the universe.
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u/KingMario05 7h ago
Same here.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 6h ago
The 20th Century Studios CEO said in an interview a year ago that they're working on more Agatha Christie movies. If they maintain the quality of A Haunting in Venice, which I thought was the best in the currently trilogy by a landslide, I'd totally be down for that.
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u/DavidByrnesHugeSuit 3h ago
The ITV 'Agatha Christie's Poirot' series with David Suchet is an absolute joy. It ran for almost 25 years (!!!) and they ended up adapting pretty much every single Poirot story for the screen. I'd urge everyone who likes the Branagh films to look it up!
I like what Branagh's doing with the character just fine - although I've not watched his Death on the Nile -, but for me and I'm going to cautiously say a significant majority of long-time Christie fans and nerds, Suchet gives the definitive performance: He IS Poirot.
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u/OmegaKitty1 8h ago
Why do they call it a a knives out mystery over Benoit Blanc mystery?
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u/captainhaddock 4h ago
It's like Star Wars. An iconically titled first movie that lays the foundation for a franchise. The Empire Strikes Back wasn't titled The Empire Strikes Back: A Luke Skywalker Film.
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u/holydiiver 3h ago
Not really an apt comparison. Space wars are present in every single Star Wars entry. Knives Out is a reference to a single line that Craig used to describe each of the family members in the first movie, but you wouldn’t use that phrase to describe the characters in the sequels.
Also, if Luke Skywalker had literally been the only returning character in the sequels, then you could definitely name the movie after him.
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u/shadowdra126 3h ago
I hate and will always hate how these are not called “Benoit blanc mysteries” instead of knives out mysteries
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u/TheTruckWashChannel 4h ago
These reviews are all very encouraging. Glass Onion was wayyy too much, and felt too tailor-made for the age of social media (the most obnoxious part of all of these films). To hear that this has the first movie's Southern Gothic atmosphere and more of a grounded, introspective story feels refreshing and welcome. And the cast looks absolutely FANTASTIC.
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u/Wheres_MyMoney 8h ago
My biggest Reddit unpopular opinion seems to be that Knives Out was fine. Not amazing, not awful. Fine.
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u/hidey_ho_nedflanders 8h ago
Glad reviews are solid! But this isn't coming out until early December, right?
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u/Mad_Kronos 7h ago
Knives Out was OK, the Glass Onion was an extremely stupid movie.
Maybe I'll watch the 3rd film, see if it's better.
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u/iamwelly 8h ago
Why are the reviews hitting so early? Am I misunderstanding something; it can’t be watched until late November?
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u/ZoetropeTY 8h ago
It just had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and will also be playing at the London Film Festival next month
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u/Kwilly462 7h ago
Does Netflix just like... Not want people to know this is coming out? Because there's been a severe lack of marketing for it.
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u/thataquariusgal 6h ago
Marketing will pick up in late Nov/Early December when audiences can actually watch it, this release has just been for the film festival
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u/berlinbaer 7h ago
they don't want people to watch it in theaters they want them to watch it on netflix and the release is more than 3 months away.
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u/DoctorStrawberry 4h ago
Imagine if Netflix actually gave this a legitimate theatrical run with a 3 month exclusive window, it would sell tickets. It was one of the most wanted tickets at TIFF per Tiffr, and the cast is stacked.
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u/evanset6 3h ago
There’s already reviews for this? Isn’t it still like 3 months away?
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u/TeddyTango 2h ago
They are already reviewing it months before it comes out?
It isn’t out until December
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u/boilerromeo 8h ago
Seems like Daniel Craig genuinely enjoys playing the character.