On the plus side, it's a good film, entertaining and well acted. But it is not remarkable. The plot is meant to be a kind of Sherlock Holmes story, with an eccentric private detective, a murder, multiple suspects, an apparently insolvable mystery and its necessarily brilliant solution. I like the genre, I am a Columbo fan and a reader of Conan Doyle's books. What disappoints me is that the detective is much, much too clever, like spectacularly perspicacious in a short time to figure out who did it. Deus ex machina all over again! With Columbo, you can see the detective building his knowledge of the case and getting to a solution such as an intelligent, instinctive detective would figure it out. In Knives Out, the private detective does a superhuman feat of deductive reasoning. That is Marvel applied to a Sherlock Holmes film.