‘Glass Onion’ review: ‘Knives Out’ sequel is a let-down
nypost.com2019 “Knives Out” premiered Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival. Called “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” the Netflix movie brings back Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc and throws him in with an entirely new crew of wealthy eccentrics.Running time: 139 minutes.
Rated PG-13. On Netflix Dec. 23.Murder. Mayhem. Mediocrity.Is it funny? Indubitably, my dear watcher. Johnson, who got an Oscar nod for writing the first film, is a very clever scribe and director.
After all, he is the same guy who, much to many “Star Wars” fans’ chagrin, wrung a lot of laughs out of “The Last Jedi.” However, what makes you want to draw a chalk outline around “Glass Onion” is our lazily conceived new suspects.
They’re well-cast and the actors all do fine comedic work, to be sure, but Johnson drops one defining biographical detail about them at the beginning and never elaborates.The actors, therefore, play up their own personalities rather than develop memorable characters.
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