In "Glass Onion" there is a moment in the first third very similar to the controversial throwaway lightsaber moment in "The Last Jedi" that suddenly flips all expectations of the film and causes the story to take an entirely new direction goes.

And then, after a long but entertaining first third, the film finally picks up speed and the mystery begins.

Unfortunately, the mystery puzzle in "Glass Onion" does very little with all the overdrawn characters that were initially introduced quite extensively and looking back it feels like many of the characters were completely unnecessary. Above all, the mystery that has to be solved in the course of the film was clearly too little and too simple for me. Nothing really made an impact, nothing was exciting, and nothing was tragic. So it also happens that you don't solve the puzzle at all, or you can't really solve the puzzle at all.

There's a certain playfulness to the location of the film and the immersion in the different characters to see different points of view and perspectives of them that's surprising here in contrast to the old Christie movies like Evil Under the Sun. Only very very little, although "Glass Onion" has the perfect conditions for it and there would have been many possibilities to create a rule-based feast of unreliable narrators and really let off steam on this futuristic island.

In general, the crime mystery in "Knives Out" is much nicer, more naturally structured, has really tragic and exciting moments in addition to the humor and has a more balanced structure than the second part, since the first also follows the classic whodunnit structure, and this onetakes a completely new path here, which causes the whole story to seem a bit shaky, and after the first direct impression, it was just too flat and simple for me, as already mentioned, and the important passages, such as e.g. Flashbacks that set up and explain the mystery worked through too quickly for me, even though they're the most important part of the story. I also found the ending to be rather unimaginative and rather dry.

But all of this has the advantage that "Glass Onion" can grow more over time and with possibly several rewatches, can mature more, quite the opposite of the 2019 film, which tends to decrease over time.

And so I like "Glass Onion" more and more over time and looking back it remains a very funny - if often a bit annoying - and overall very entertaining crime comedy, with a great cinematic staging that has the nostalgia of an old Agatha Christie adaptation up toof reasonable proportion and original enough to be respected and appreciated in the whodunnit field. The fun I had while watching is now more and more in the foreground and makes the whole film more and more for me and so I'm really looking forward to a second viewing.