Knives Out

It was okay, not 'amazing' which you would expect if you believed the rotten tomatoes rating. Overall abit dissappointing, not very thrilling or exciting. The story rewards you if you pay attention so it's probably worth a second watch but it's abit long and dry. Some good acting, but the pace of the story made me sleepy. I just didn't care that much about any of the characters. I'd recommend watching it if you're bored and can't think of anything else you'd rather watch.

I'd heard this movie was "okay" but considering it pretty much copied from Agatha Christie I thought it could have the potential to be pretty good. Unfortunately Rian Johnson again proves he simply is not a very good maker of movies. Dull and predictable because the whodunnit was dumbed down to suit an audience that wants to be spoon-fed the answers. Not worth the bother but if you really must see it, save your money and watch it when it's free to air

Very average. When I heard Rian Johnson was a master deconstructer of genre I was hoping for a truly original whodunnit. Instead it's a complete lift of Agatha Christie that offers nothing new. It's not even a whodunnit as there's only one suspect and the howdunnit is exactly the same as how Marta got back inside the house. It doesn't make sense either, as (spoilers) Ransom didn't break the trestle but Marta did? Marta didn't see his footprints? Marta didn't check the labels before injecting? That makes her culpability worse, not better. Harlan couldn't tell the effect of the drugs he's had many times before? The tox report only existed in hardcopy? The detective does the denouement with the culprit in the presence of a carousel of knives? So what's good? The decoration of the house, the color grading, the cinematography and Christopher Plummer. In every other regard particularly the story it's no better than an average episode of Jonathan Creek