While the fairly dense plot of this movie is certainly *clever*, fast paced, and structured in a way that never loses you and leaves the big bits for the end, it completely lacks all heart and soul. It's rather pleased with its smarmy, low brow rich d-bag characters and outting their rottenness with a maximum of irony and slappy wit. Start to absolute finish. Snore. What would have been unpredictable and satisfying by the end, is if someone in this garbage family did one right thing for one right reason, and it wasn't just the outsider who was decent. I'd be fine if she was the only "winner" at the end, I would just liked to have seen a glimmer of unpredictable humanity even in dark places. How clever and fresh can something be if trope characters fall to trope fates and motives? Give me a break.

And also, just disregard the dumb reviews that see this as some "woke" angle. Biased minds make for biased viewing. I can say with absolute certainty that Knives OUt completely skewers liberal elitists and the rich right in exactly the same way. The fact that the nurse is a CHILD OF, NOT HERSELF an immigrant is absolutely immaterial. It was only necessary that she was not related to them, and of few means. Her mother's status or her own accent has nothing to do with her characterization and very little to do with the plot.

This does not need to be politically biased to kind of suck. And kind of suck it does.