KNIVES OUT is sumptuous to the eye but also salutary to the brain, a whole package for optimal consumption

Rating: 7/10 (2 December 2019)

"Afflicted by the silly proclivity of involuntary vomiting whenever she tells a lie, Marta's version of the incidence is laid bare really early on the way, which firmly shoves audience's empathy and perspective on her side as experienced spectators know all too well, that version of the story is just a guise full of cracks and holes need to be exposed, Marta turns out to be the sole inheritor of Harlan's massive fortune, which instantaneously prompts the Thrombey family to turn on her with venomous aspersion and threats. Johnson's script craftily jumps on the bandwagon of the racial sensibility by pitting Marta against the whole bunch of white rich bigots, among which, Jamie Lee Curtis as Linda, Harlan's firstborn, vehemently goes berserk with both barrels in her hypocritical outburst, but we should also feel sorry for her, as a business mogul, she is saddled with a cheating husband (Johnson) and a deadbeat son Ransom (Evans); Michael Shannon's Walter Thrombey, Harlan's youngest son, goes with a different approach, tentatively dragooning Marta with veiled menace. But, as empty vase makes the most noice, up till then, most audience would be confident that they're all red herrings (Toni Collette is toothsome in her shameless freeloader mannerism as Joni, the widow of Harlan's deceased son)."
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