Knives Out (2019).
Director: Rian Johnson. (12a).
Comedy
Rating: 4/5 - very good lots to enjoy
Synopsis
Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is the internationally renowned author of several best-selling murder mysteries and has built up a considerable fortune and publishing empire.
This has benefited his family in many ways but after they dutifully gather for his 85th birthday celebrations, Harlan is found dead the next day, having seemingly committed suicide with one of his favourite knives.
As his devoted family are revealed under police questioning to be flawed, unfaithful, greedy and grasping individuals, the well-known private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) who otherwise sits as a silent observer, puts Harlan’s saintly and respected nurse Marta (Ana de Armas) under the spotlight.
She has more secrets than the others put together.
Review
This whodunnit comes on like a modern day Sleuth aboard a runaway train, with 'Poirot' as the fat controller.
Director Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, 2017) has his tongue firmly and familiarly in his cheek for this most delectable of decrepit family fall-outs...and all the better for it.
He gets great mileage out of his cast - particularly Jamie Lee Curtis, who excels as the tongue-lashing daughter of the dead paterfamilias - and the design of the movie is gorgeous.
This will undoubtedly be a big hit and deservedly so, but could it have pushed deeper and harder?
Read the full review for more: bit.ly/KnivesOutFilm
Cast & credits
2hr 10mins/130mins. Lionsgate/Media Rights Capital/T-Street. (12a).
Producers: Ram Bergen, Rian Johnson.
Writer: Rian Johnson.
Camera: Steve Yedlin.
Music: Nathan Johnson.
Sets: David Crank.
Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Riki Lindhome, Frank Oz.
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