Review of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) by Scienceadvisor — 08 Jan 2023

Contrivances, expositions, contradictions and coincidences the script. Rian Johnson showing he cannot write to save his life, with a murder story that forgets the mystery, and has to cheat by reshooting scenes from a slightly different angle, even though it was clear from the original angle that this is NOT what happened.

To make it worse there are multiple key aspects of the movie that would never have happened (allowing a character to even join the weekend) without random characters suddenly acting as dumb as Rian truly is.

This is a movie for people to pretend they solved something when it was never really a puzzle, so they can pat themselves on the back for finally solving one. That is the subversion of expectation, but also qualifies for false advertising.

At least Batista did not burn his crotch (I hope) when he fired the gun then promptly jammed it into his speedos, because over-exaggerated stereotypes are so funny. Also, the heroine is an attempted murderer and a French death squad will be killing her for her crimes, all with the approval of Benoit simply because the detective is a moron.

Everyone ends up in jail in the real world, except they would have died of course, if Rian had a single active brain cell.