Watching: Knives Out
Dec. 3rd, 2019 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartWhen thriller writer Harlan Thrombey is found dead in his study, his throat slit, the morning after his 85th birthday party, the initial verdict is suicide, but an anonymous client hires private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig with a rather implausible Southern accent) to investigate further. It's clear that more than one member of Thrombey's family had a motive for murder, but did one of them really act on it?
Rian Johnson's new film, Knives Out, is a modern-day Agatha Christie-style whodunnit that really works as a whodunnit, with plenty of twists and turns on its way to a resolution which I certainly hadn't guessed. With an all-star cast including Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans (not the ginger-haired DJ one) and Christopher Plummer as Thrombey, as well as Craig, and set in a wonderfully gothic New England mansion, it's clever, witty and a really enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours on a dark December evening.
Rian Johnson's new film, Knives Out, is a modern-day Agatha Christie-style whodunnit that really works as a whodunnit, with plenty of twists and turns on its way to a resolution which I certainly hadn't guessed. With an all-star cast including Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans (not the ginger-haired DJ one) and Christopher Plummer as Thrombey, as well as Craig, and set in a wonderfully gothic New England mansion, it's clever, witty and a really enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours on a dark December evening.
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Date: 2019-12-08 07:55 pm (UTC)