Knives Out will make you wish Rian Johnson wasn’t wasting himself on Star Wars.
“The guy practically lives on a Clue board,” observes a cop investigating the suspicious death of bestselling mystery writer Harlan Thrombey inRian Johnson’s sly modern take on the Agatha Christie–style whodunit. That’s an apt description of the Thrombey mansion, a Victorian labyrinth crammed full of secret passageways, creepy antique figurines, and displays of the author’s formidable vintage dagger collection.
A zippily edited early montage introduces the extended Thrombey clan as the cops interview them about the last night of Harlan’s life. His daughter Linda is an icy real estate mogul who likes to present herself as a self-made success, though it took a million-dollar loan from her father to launch her company. Similarly, Walt , who runs his father’s publishing business, fancies himself a budding media mogul, when in fact he’s a barely competent lackey.
Another unique element of this diabolically clever rug-puller is that, rather than saving the revelation of what happened on the fateful night for a final expository speech , Johnson provides an accurate account of Harlan’s last moments before the film is even half over.
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