I was left mostly unimpressed by Knives Out but in retrospect it stands as a very good movie if you compare it to Glass Onion.

As a stand-alone movie Glass Onion is a very messy movie, bundling a ridiculously diverse cast of characters to pathetically laminate them as equally dumb upstarts. No one here rises above the average partying teenage stock character in a slasher movie. Actually it fells like the film-makers have watched too many real-TV shows or that Netflix pushed this extended Tentative Brilliance Island treatment.

Benoit Blanc. The first time around I was not really charmed by this thick Hercule Poirot spoof-boy, but I acknowledge he fitted the Clue game they successfully opened up. In Glass Onion he is just plain annoying, hamming it with this insufferable accent, probably because he is thrown in at the very beginning to balance out the guests' IQ, thus not letting any serious plot unfold before he dozes us around with all his rococo-deductive salesmanship.

I did not find that a single character stood out, which is a sign for me that they just fumbled it with their low-reaching whatsamatterwithwhodunnit high concept.