...begging to get the arrogant, smug grin slapped off of it! And I am not even a Star Wars fan!

While the question of his writing/filmaking competence is a moot one as his early work recommends him for the higher echelons of Hollywood, similar to another such hack Christopher Nolan, the transition he made into higher production budgets yielded the same results as said Nolan.

Faulty and deficient these movies in themselves are simply power ego trips of filmmakers whi finally got in position to preach their "genious" to us mere mortal audiences, a career and moneymaking vehicles for them and an ideological bullhorn through which Hollywood blasts their nonsense to us.

And while those are the elements that many find most offensive here what bothers me more is that the critical consensus among the critics and part of the naive and simplistic audiences is to praise these works for the sheer fact they agree with their politics and messages, not assessing them on their objective storytelling merits. Glass Onion is, at best, a three to four star piece of entertainment but all the movie review platforms rate this mediocre drivel so highly that any objective rating scale goes out the window.

So now, we are not judging movies based on their inherent, storytelling values but simply based on which camp the viewer belongs to - for or agains the filmmaker and his work. And this goes for both sides od the spectrum - 9's and 10's and 1's and 2's ratings for this movie. And while I also do not think Knives Out was a groundbreaking ingeniuos film it was done more subtly and carefully to pave over all the drawbacks of Rian Johnson's approach that are glaringly obvious and out in the open in Glass Onion.

I will generously rate this (without regard to any of the above) as a a bloated, faulty and lukewarm attempt at comedy/whodunit with four stars it deserves.