I have to admit after watching Knives Out and seeing the 8.0 rating of Glass Onion I got my hopes up. I naively believed that Rian Johnson could do it again and I was crushed when reality caught up with me. Glass Onion is not a worthy sequel to Knives Out and misses all the things that Knives Out was celebrated for.

Knives Out was a mostly serious murder mystery movie with comedic elements, Glass Onion is a (bad) comedy with simplistic murder mystery elements. The humor in Knives Out didn't take away from the story, it just lit up the serious base premise of the movie. Glass Onions humor is immature and completely overwhelms the movie itself, it is impossible to take anything serious.

Knives Out gave us an actual murder mystery, we follow detective Benoit Blanc as he gathers clues and gets to know the Drysdale family. We were given many hints and just did not know how to combine them all. But we learn how they all fit together in a reasonable way in the course of the movie. Glass Onion on the other hand gives us several short scenes without giving us anything to speculate on and then "reveals" what actually happened by showing us the same scenes again just without cutting out the actual hints. And that is basically the whole "mystery", there is nothing to think about, just watch it and get told everything that happened. That is not how murder mystery works and it is definitely not smart storytelling.

Knives Out had a great cast and the actors and characters worked well together, the family was believable and each character acted the way one would expect. The actors brought this disfunctional family to life. Glass Onion had a talented cast on paper but very stereotypical over the top characters ruined any chance the actors had to actually act. It is difficult to imagine this group of "friends" getting along in any way. There is no chemistry or logical reason for them to form a group like this. The characters are little more than brainless pawns that move the simple plot of the movie along.

Knives Out was a good movie from beginning to end and subverts the viewer's expectations several times in the middle. Glass Onion raises some curiosity in the beggining, destroys it in the middle and becomes a childish farce at the end.

There were some positive elements, the movie at least manages to raise some curiosity in the beginning, there were a few good ideas inside, the cinematography was good and I still think that Daniel Craig is perfect for the role of Benoit Blanc. But in the end, it is still a bad movie and an even worse sequel to a movie that got almost everything right.