The title of Knives Out, combined with the opening sequences, suggest that you're going to be taken on a dramatic ride of quarreling and backstabbing that culminates in the answer to who done it. Unfortunately that drama never really gets fully established enough to make the ending convincing or satisfying. The script also frequently falls into the pit of telling and not showing, which is understandable to a degree considering it is a story where investigators use interrogation to help uncover the mystery, but it just feels awkward being in that pit during especially key points in the story. The nicely assembled cast offers some fine performances with what's there, but the prevailing feeling at the end is that there could have been and should have been more.