Review of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) by Johndoe2014 — 18 Jan 2023

I don't like writing bad reviews. But I am not sure how so many critics liked this. I know they were all supposed to be unlikable, but still they all were. And so - so what. Why do we care about these people? And if you break it down, the plot is the most obvious person killing the most obvious person in a predicable way.

Perry Mason gets 10X more done in an hour. What was the mystery? Soap Opera dramatics among the cast is not a mystery. And the end, what is the message - if you can't put the rich guy in jail, at least you can break all his stuff? Is breaking things how you end a mystery story? Have we decided that audiences are too stupid to get detective work, so we just end it with "things blowing up real good.