'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' is a sequel to the surpise box office success of 2019 'Knives Out' ($313 million world wide off a budget of $40 million.). Netflix gobbled up the sequel rights for more mystery adventures by the southern fried detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). The film is being given a short theatrical run, before becoming exclusive of its streaming service.
In this outing Blanc finds himself invited to the private Greek island of a Musk-ish billionaire (Ed Norton), to solve a 'who a done it' among a group of guests who all have reasons to wish their host ill. This Christie worthy assortment includes Norton's former buisness partner (Janelle Moane), the governor of Connecticut (Kathryn Hahn), a scientist (Leslie Odom Jr.), a fadding supermodel (Kate Hudson) and a "men's rights" social media star (Dave Bautista).
'Glass Onion' is not as good as 'Knives Out', but not by that much. I probably enjoyed my first watch of this more then the original, because I had a better sense of what it was going to be going in. This movie is more cock sure of its self then the first one was, there's some overselling to the piece, but it's still enjoyable. It's 'Death on the Nile' with a sense of humor. I enjoyed Blanc's online gaming buddies and Norton's Kato Kaelin like house guest (Noah Segan), "That's Derol, he's just staying here while he figures some stuff out." ***1/2
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