I watched this based on its reputation and felt let down.

Just the day before, I watched Adam Sandler's Murder Mystery. It's an inferior film but a better whodunnit than this. And the recent Poirot films are better murder mysteries than Knives Out. In fact, I'm not sure why this is called Knives Out since nobody seems to even try backstab each other.

The acting is great and I like the characters. But most of them do nothing of consequence. The murder is solved early on, apart from a lazy twist in the end that was a bit too obvious. There was no air of suspicion or interesting dead ends. There is no real build-up.

I'm not sure why this movie is so hyped. It was okay but not at the level I've experienced from this genre. It's certainly no reinvention, just a lazy stab.