Director: Rian Johnson. Cast: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Ethan Hawke, Hugh Grant, Stephen Sondheim, Natasha Lyonne, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Serena Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 139 min. Crime/Mystery.
- Looks like the Knives Out films, inspired by Agatha Christie's style of whodunit mysteries, are going down the path of the two recent actual Christie's adaptations: Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile: great first movie, good but not as great second movie. When it came to Glass Onion, I was as engaged throughout as the first Knives Out, and the multitude of colorful characters, including Daniel Craig as sleuth Benoit Blanc with his Southern accent, and Edward Norton as a reckless Elon Musk type, make it a delicious murder mystery (like Nile, they even go to sea!); just that I didn't get the feeling of originality like the first Knives Out, and was able to predict a mid-movie twist (the one regarding a dead body on the stairs) - probably because I read too many Christie novels as a teenager.
- Fascinating cameo appearances. Just look at the list above, after Dave Bautista.
- Obsessions with glass on this one: the main setting of the story is a literal huge glass onion, there's a question of vodka glasses with poison being passed around, and a major climax with glass sculptures being smashed to pieces. Even a gong sound heard on the island is said in the movie to have been composed by famed composer Philip Glass. Very funny.
- Would I look forward to a third Knives Out movie? Of course I would. As long as Daniel Craig is there. And ... they bring back Ana de Armas from the first movie.
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