Knives Out is a star studded whodunit where all the suspects are gathered in the mansion.

It is a knowing variation of the board game Cluedo which itself was turned into a movie in the mid 1980s. The victim is best selling crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer.)

A private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) has been hired to find out if the writer's death really was murder or as the police suspect, a suicide. A recently changed will might lead to a motive.

This comedy mystery is reliant on Harlan's personal nurse Marta (Ana de Armas) a woman who physically throws up if she tells a lie.

Following the conventions of many Agatha Christie mysteries and the Columbo movies. Knives Out turns a lot of the essential ingredients of the genre in his head by adding several layers to the story.

However it is not original as there have been several movies that have twisted the crime mystery genre. It also feel slightly laboured and in the end it is superficial as Craig's accent which at times becomes grating.

Chris Evans playboy character is underwritten and he struggles amongst other cast members such as Don Johnson, Michael Shannon and Jamie Leigh Curtis.