Review: Knives Out (second-pass)

Knives Out (second-pass)
Cert: 12A / 130 mins / Dir. Rian Johnson / Trailer




Not a great deal more to add upon my first brief mutterings on this movie, other than to say that it will become a firm favourite in the years to come and I'm already hoping Benoit Blanc has more outings in the future.

Knowing the story and its outcome, a second-pass of Knives Out meant I could get fully immersed in the magnificent performances which Rian Johnson plucks from his cast - one of the very few exceptions where the players of a movie are clearly having an absolute ball and it still results in something which isn't self-indulgently awful. And although there are narrative 'tells' to pick up when re-watching, the identity of the murderer never seems too obvious, the motives of the non-murderers are just as potentially solid, and Blanc most definitely does not know whodunnit all along.

Come for the murder, stay for the fun.
Then come back again for both...

Agatha Christye type things.



It is.



It is.



It will be high up on a a lot of performers' CVs for quite a while, and with good reason.



That's possible.



There isn't.



Level 1: Stomeroni Starck and Slowen Lo are in this.







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