SummaryIn Rian Johnson's Knives Out follow-up, detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of suspects.
SummaryIn Rian Johnson's Knives Out follow-up, detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of suspects.
Glass Onion adopts the sturdy structural underpinnings of the Agatha Christie-like whodunit, and presents them with an ingenious mix of postmodern irony and bona fide awe.
“Glass Onion” is completely silly, but it’s not only silly. Explicitly set during the worst months of the Covid pandemic — the spring of 2020 — “Glass Onion” leans into recent history without succumbing to gloom, bitterness or howling rage, which is no small accomplishment. One way to interpret the title is that a glass onion may be sharp, and may have a lot of layers, but it won’t make you cry.
Absolutely excellent. I enjoyed this even better than the first, the story was absolutely engaging and unpredictable. Janelle Monae did such a fantastic job truly an actress highlight of 2022 for me
Craig may be the main character, but “Glass Onion” belongs to Monáe. Johnson has scripted one hell of a role for her, and she plays it with such a wide range of emotions and tones while modeling a stunning array of power suits that she drops the audience’s jaws. Monae’s performance turns on a dime with whiplash precision, so when the film folds in on itself, we grab hold of her hand for dear life. She pulls us along with such glee that it makes one giddy.
Even more than the first “Knives Out,” “Glass Onion” is a thriller wrapped in a deception tucked inside a riddle. It is, of course, a murder mystery with multiple suspects, but it’s one that comes with byways and flashbacks and bells and whistles, not to mention two whodunit homicides for the price of one.
Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is that plate of morsels in movie form, a breezy caper that mostly sustains its novelty, even if it stumbles a bit in the last third.
Johnson still does whodunits better than Kenneth Branagh’s horrid Agatha Christie adaptations he keeps torturing audiences with. Yet despite the giggles and the beefier budget — explosions, an exotic locale, massive sets — “Glass Onion” comes off slight.
Rian Johnson builds a clever mystery with Glass Onion. Yet unlike its predecessor, where the characters were amusingly devious, everyone here is despicable and completely unrelatable. These annoying and immature characters bring down an otherwise enjoyable mystery.
Wasn't as strong as the first but still entertaining. There's a lot to admire here but overall the story once you think about it, is a bit silly. But regardless a fun watch.
A waste of time. I thought this was going to be at least entertaining, but after an hour of pablem and ring around the mystery idiocy, I just stopped watching. I have no idea what the "Pro" reviewers were smoking when they watched the scenery chewing performances by everyone except maybe Janelle Monae, but they obviously drank the cool aid and then smoked it. If a mystery doesn't grab you in the first 15 minutes and this one didn't. Move on. This guy is no Agatha Christie. let alone P.D.James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stieg Larsson, Steven King or Patricia Cornwell.