Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

My Rating 6:10

I liked the first Benoit Blanc mystery murder movie adventure Knives Out in 2019 but for me there were too many layers to this Glass Onion.

I thought it was over produced , over Directed and trying be to clever but failing in my opinion.

I found it interesting though in a number of aspects that included the briefest cameo appearances by the late Stephen Sondheim who adored puzzles mathematics and Angela Lansbury who adored Stephen Sondheim was their appearance meant to add sophistication?

Also the fact that the action of the plot occurs in May 2020 during the Covid pandemic which isn't mentioned once however all the characters were masked .

They board a boat to a private luxury island owned by Miles Bron a billionaire and co-founder of the technology company Alpha. Miles has invited his guests to a murder mystery weekend with an elaborate invitation puzzle box to solve a murder where he is the victim.

All sounds good so far but for me the characters in this story unlike Knives Out number one were very one dimensional and uninteresting .

It's an impressive cast not as impressive as Knives Out with an impressive location filmed on the island of Spetses in Greece .

It also has an impressive budget of $40 million .

However even Daniel Craig looks tired and unimpressed in his role as the southern super sleuth Benoit Blanc who doesn't seem to know why he's been invited?

There is another third Knives out Mystery in the pipeline in one of the biggest streaming deals in history worth $400 million for the total franchise.

It takes more than a huge budget and top box office stats to make a movie interesting for me and this one I thought a bit of a yawn.