Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Reviews

Of course, since I really enjoyed ‘Knives Out’, I was really eager to check this sequel. Well, even though I have a little voice constantly telling me I’m actually overrating these movies, I have to admit that I actually really enjoyed the damned thing though. First of all, for Daniel Craig, if he was ever scared to get stuck by James Bond like so many actors before him, well, he couldn’t have wished a better rebound than Benoit Blanc. Indeed, it is so obvious that Craig has such a blast with the character and I thought he was once again so damned entertaining (However, it is apparently not everyone’s cup of tea since my wife thought he was awful in ‘Knives Out’). Once again, they had also a all-star cast involved (Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom jr., Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Madelyn Cline, Ethan Hawke, Hugh Grant,…) and they were all game. Of course, you could argue that they were all playing some really vapid and dislikeable characters so I can understand that if you didn’t care much about them. Concerning the story, I wonder if some viewers were actually capable of finding out what was actually going on early on. I certainly didn’t, I was expecting someone completely different to get killed and the damned thing was just so intricate but that’s what made this movie  so entertaining. Anyway, at the end of the day, the conclusion, at least for me, was that, even if you become super successful and super rich in the process, it doesn’t automatically mean that you are super smart which was pretty awesome. Was it better than its predecessor? I don’t think so but it was definitely at the same level. The brilliant thing done by Rian Johnson was that there were so many similarities and, yet, both movies were still quite different. In this case, I still wonder why the action was taking place during the COVID pandemic since it had such very little impact on the story though. Anyway, to conclude, it was once again really fun to see Benoit Blanc cracking a new case and the damned thing is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.