2
hours 10 minutes
Starring:
Daniel Craig, Don Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Christopher
Plummer, Chris Evans, Michal Shannon and Ana de Armas
Now
that you know who is in it – you might be disappointed by the movie
itself. It is billed as an Agatha
Christie type movie, so how can it go wrong with a description like that? Well for me, I found it very disappointing. I
thought the movie was long, drawn out, boring, and anti-climactic.
The
setting is a Victorian style house where the wealthy and famous father and
grandfather, Harlan Thrombey (played by Christopher Plummer) was found dead.
Who
did it? Was it one of his three children? His grandchildren? His
daughter-in-law or maybe the caretaker?
Who was going to inherit all his money, his estate and his book
publishing corporation? Enter Daniel
Craig as the southern talking detective named Benoit Blanc. At this point, I was done. His character was “so” annoying it was a
distraction for me, from the story. Aside
from that, the story became flat and boring.
It just weaved in and out of different characters and why “they” might
be the one. I felt like it didn’t really
throw in too many different options of suspense and I felt it wasn’t hard to
figure out who did it.
I
guess I wished there had been more “suspense”
and more “on the edge of your seat”
storyline. They were trying for Agatha
Christie and it was more like Columbo.
Library Link: Knives Out (DVD)
