Where Knives out were diamond sharp in anything from quirky characters to witty dialogue, and the cast of that movie clearly loved every minute on screen, Glass Onion is layers of mostly very famous cast and cameos, most of them not connected to the story at all. It is like parts of three different movies put together as one, and only the middle part - the detective story - is any good. That could have been excellent. Daniel Craig, as the world famous Benoit Blanc, detective extraordinaire, and his sidekick here - whose identity can not be revealed not to spoil anything - are excellent. And the whole movie could have been, had it been told better. The ending is just so horribly stupid, it is beyond belief the movie have been greenlight with it in. And instead of starting the movie by showing the actual murder (in a way that didn't reveal the killer's identity), or presenting scenes which at least showed why the various characters had a motive, we barely get an introduction to who any of the key characters are, they just all suddenly come together on a video conference call, working together to open a box they all have received. The best to say about that neverending scene, is to praise the actress playing the mother of one of the key characters. Her shouting input to the conference call is the only reason I would have kept that entire sequence in, had I been in the editing suite when the movie was edited.

Unfortunately that mother is not with her son while he, and the other key characters, turn up at a harbor in Greece, where they, and Benoit Blanc, are greeted by Ethan Hawk (cameo appearance) before they board a yacht to sail them to the property of their billioneer host. A trip which could be mistaken to have been from a new series of White Lotus. I am not going to spoil anything by telling what happens on the island, other than to say I first saw something similar in the Man with the Golden Gun. Christopher Lee, as Francisco Scaramanga, in that movie, was much more aweinviting than Edward Norton is in Glass Onion, Norton is more White Lotus hotel manager, than mysterious billionaire.

What is wrong with this movie is that what is important for the plot and solution to the crime either are presented so clumsily it screams the killer's identity long before it is meant to, or introduce possible motives through dialogue and off screen references, rather than allowing us viewers to work it out ourselves from what we see in scenes, or experiencing the wow factor when getting the solution presented. Maybe it is deliberate, and it is called the Glass Onion because the movie - despite having many layers - still is very transperant, and just like an onion, without a proper core?

It's main problem, though, is that despite all the layers, and going back and forth in the story, what really ruins this film as a crime/whodunit is that some of the acts of both the victim and Benoit Blanc's sidekick, goes against logic someone in their situation would have done. But had they not acted like that, there wouldn't have been a plot. But on the plus side, we also would have been saved from that incredibly stupid ending.