Knives Out
Knives out was great fun!
Daniel Craig plays a modern independent detective, described with mild irony as the last of the gentlemen detectives. Sometimes he's just in the same general genre, but occasionally the film leans right into it and he drops a Holmes reference and it's never clear if it's the detective doing it on purpose or the film doing it in a world where no-one knew about the original.
I thought he would be good in this role and he was. But he has this great Boston accent and I just never got used to it. Like, obviously some people just have Boston accents and it doesn't have to be FOR anything, but it still just really stood out.
There's a dysfunctional extended family descended from a rich mystery writer, and the characters comment how his mansion leans into the genre too. His children, and their partners and wives, are all characterised very well. The observant biting businesswoman and her "I'm Important but I Don't Actually Have Anything to be Important At" husband. The frustrated son running his father's publishing company. The screwed up teenage grandson.
But the plot doesn't follow them, it follows the detective and nurse/companion to the old writer, and how they progress through the mystery and how they navigate his screwed up family. It's very well paced, flitting between flashbacks to show how events happened, and between different interrogations happening at similar times.
It wasn't perfect but I enjoyed it a lot, I'd certainly like to see more.
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Daniel Craig plays a modern independent detective, described with mild irony as the last of the gentlemen detectives. Sometimes he's just in the same general genre, but occasionally the film leans right into it and he drops a Holmes reference and it's never clear if it's the detective doing it on purpose or the film doing it in a world where no-one knew about the original.
I thought he would be good in this role and he was. But he has this great Boston accent and I just never got used to it. Like, obviously some people just have Boston accents and it doesn't have to be FOR anything, but it still just really stood out.
There's a dysfunctional extended family descended from a rich mystery writer, and the characters comment how his mansion leans into the genre too. His children, and their partners and wives, are all characterised very well. The observant biting businesswoman and her "I'm Important but I Don't Actually Have Anything to be Important At" husband. The frustrated son running his father's publishing company. The screwed up teenage grandson.
But the plot doesn't follow them, it follows the detective and nurse/companion to the old writer, and how they progress through the mystery and how they navigate his screwed up family. It's very well paced, flitting between flashbacks to show how events happened, and between different interrogations happening at similar times.
It wasn't perfect but I enjoyed it a lot, I'd certainly like to see more.
Spoilers relegated to the comments, read carefully if you haven't seen it.
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