First of all, this so-called "Knives Out" might just be a goofy remake of "Gosford Park (2001)", even all the characters were almost alike. But the 2001 movie is more original, this 2019 one is so mediocre and generic. From 2001 to 2019, there are so many movies, screenplays, scenarios and plots that the screenplay writer(s) could borrow, steal and copycat into their "Knives Out" script. So~~~ The big magnetic disk of knives was copycatted from GOT's throne. The boring, formulaic and deadbeat humorless dialog, the storyline, the scenarios and the plot were heavily copycatted from those BBC's "Masterpiece" and "Mysteries" dramas, most were written, scripted and adapted from a bunch British housewives kitchen writers with poor logic and reasoning. Then, The two police detectives were extremely poor cast, one clown, the other one, a greenhorn. They didn't look and act like seasoned plain-clothe detectives. There's no way these two guys could even be qualified as entry-level uniformed patrol cop, albeit for being senior plain-clothe detectives. It's a joke and insult to the police system. Daniel Craig's role in this movie is the biggest joke, totally unnecessary, albeit another wrong cast, but since the screenplay writer(s) of this heavily copycatted movie needed to harvest all the roles of those existing movies and their existing screenplays so readily available to them when they wrote their script for "Knives Out", they simply could not include those obvious, already-there free chows, so they just copied everything available and threw into their mix. Another character borrowed and capycatted from those typical BBC British detective crap, so-called DCI, detective inspector or some other titles. When two American detectives investigated a suspicious murder case and questioned all the family members one by one, you think a civilian P.I. would be allowed to sit nearby those two low I.Q. American police detectives? And what's the purpose of asking him to speak with a southern accent? All the family members in this farce were like cartoon's caricatures with dramatic exaggerated acting, talking, facial expressions, gestures....none of them looked natural and realistic enough, just gave a strong impression that they were trying very hard to mimic those characters in BBC's "Mysteries" and "Masterpiece". Spent so much money, signed up so many Hollywood talents, but ended up so inferior if compared to "An Inspector Calls (2015)". Just don't know how and why so many viewers are so excited with high praises. I rest my case.