Review: Knives Out
Murder mysteries are very much a forgotten genre these days. Even the ones which came out in recent times failed to hit the standard or the expectations as the ones did in the good old days. Murder on the Orient Express ( 2017) being the latest notable example. With an ensemble cast by his side, Rian Johnson, was able to bring at least some of those good old mysterious feelings back with his latest, "Knives Out".
A very rich and successful writer and publishing company owner, Harlan Thrombey is found dead. Appeared to be a case of suicide initially, the police officers are forced to look into the matters further deep than it's initial appearance by a private detective named Benoit Blanc, who himself is unaware of the identity of the person who hired him to look into this case.
While questioning the family and the help, the police officers find their stories credible enough to be believed but Blanc sense a disharmony and possible motives for each of them to commit the hineous crime. From their respective versions of what has happened Blanc understands that Harlan, on the eve of his 85th birthday party, apparently the night he got killed, had altercations with several of his own family members including his son in law, daughter in law, his youngest son as well as with his grandson for various reasons. Determined to find the culprit, Blanc seeks assistance from Marta Cabrera, an immigrant nurse, who was very close to Harlan, who also has a peculiar habit of vomiting whenever she has to lie.
Daniel Craig plays the character of Benoit Blanc, and surrounded by a hugely talented support cast including some big as well as promising names such as Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Ana de Armas, Katherine Langford etc.
The film does well on many aspects such as building the suspense even while revealing the actions happened in an uncomplicated manner to giving each character an air of dubiety to build up that curiosity of how things would unfurl in the end. Told in an almost predictable, yet old school manner, Knives Out turns out to be a good watch and entertaining from the start to the end, and Rian Johnson deserves much credit for how he has pulled this off.
A very rich and successful writer and publishing company owner, Harlan Thrombey is found dead. Appeared to be a case of suicide initially, the police officers are forced to look into the matters further deep than it's initial appearance by a private detective named Benoit Blanc, who himself is unaware of the identity of the person who hired him to look into this case.
While questioning the family and the help, the police officers find their stories credible enough to be believed but Blanc sense a disharmony and possible motives for each of them to commit the hineous crime. From their respective versions of what has happened Blanc understands that Harlan, on the eve of his 85th birthday party, apparently the night he got killed, had altercations with several of his own family members including his son in law, daughter in law, his youngest son as well as with his grandson for various reasons. Determined to find the culprit, Blanc seeks assistance from Marta Cabrera, an immigrant nurse, who was very close to Harlan, who also has a peculiar habit of vomiting whenever she has to lie.
Daniel Craig plays the character of Benoit Blanc, and surrounded by a hugely talented support cast including some big as well as promising names such as Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Ana de Armas, Katherine Langford etc.
The film does well on many aspects such as building the suspense even while revealing the actions happened in an uncomplicated manner to giving each character an air of dubiety to build up that curiosity of how things would unfurl in the end. Told in an almost predictable, yet old school manner, Knives Out turns out to be a good watch and entertaining from the start to the end, and Rian Johnson deserves much credit for how he has pulled this off.
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