Big miss by critics

Rating: 6/10 (4 December 2019)

This could've been a perfectly enjoyable 1h40m popcorn flick for the Christmas season. It would have been okay at its over 2 hour length, had it been sitting at 71% on the tomatometer. However it's at 97%, and I fell asleep during the slow part in act 2. After that, it picks up and becomes a decently satisfying comedy thriller. Chris Evans character really spices things up, and Michael Shannon finally gets to do that thing he does at his best. Daniel Craig's campy foghorn leghorn performance is so over the top, that they call it out to the audience. He was at least oddly entertaining. Ana who plays the main character is dressed way down to look average, but it's impossible to hide her beauty and charm. I wish her character had more depth. She ends up mostly being stand in for the audience, rather than an active participant in the story.
There was a rather pedestrian twist at the end, which wasn't really. Everything plays out as expected. There are several overt political lines and issues in this movie. It's hard to know if Rian Johnson thought he was making a grand statement about classism in the United States. The politics just felt kind of tacked on to the kooky family mystery story.
See it if you have time to kill. Just don't expect to be blown away.