First hour is dull as Johnson shows you what he wants you to see. Rest of the film is him pretending to be smarter than you as he slowly peels back the layers of the onion to reveal what he hid from you earlier. In reality, it's not smart film making but lazy.

Even the basic structure of the film is the same as Knives Out with a group of individuals all living off the prime and successful person. Making the same commentary that he did with Star Wars about wealth and those without.

In Knives Out you had Ana de Armas' character as the glue between everybody, and trodden on by those unsavoury protagonists too. But she had charm, and her character's warmth is what made the film. Glass Onion has none of the warmth, none of the charm, and vacuous characters. As transparent as glass with nothing to see within.

In Knives Out there was a discovery process characters went through. Took you on that journey to discover the truth. Glass Onion dispenses with the mystery.

It's a film that once you've seen it once there's nothing to go back to view again. Even that once is perhaps once too many.