In this sequel to KNIVES OUT half a dozen friends go to spend a weekend on tech billionaire Edward Norton's Greek island to play a game in which they have to solve his murder. Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, the Foghorn Leghorn-voiced greatest detective in the world also appears with an invitation, to Norton's confusion. After Norton solves the murder before it happens, people start dying....and everyone has a reason for wanting Norton dead.

It's well over two hours in length, but it's very tightly plotted, and I couldn't spot the murderer until the revelation. There's a lot to take in, including a thorough satire of the cult of tech billionaires as geniuses, rather than Okies trying to plow a field of dust when the drillers strike oil. It's been nearly three thousand years since Thales got tired of neighbors asking him if he was so smart, why wasn't he rich, amassed a quick fortune, and get back to the things that interested him. Nowadays people think that if you're rich you really know, and Rian Johnson spends a lot of time popping that delusion.

Just like the first movie, Craig is nowhere near the whole show; in fact, Norton as Elon Musk seems to get most of the screen time, followed by Janelle Monáe as his ex-partner, and Dave Bautista as an Alex Jones look-alike. There's a thorough-going contempt for the cult of money that works far better than 2019's Greed , which was all about that.... and had no sense of how to tell a story. It's also your final chance to see Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury on screen.