Knives Out

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2020)

Out - movie review
A Black comedy murder mystery

December 17, 2019 Editorial
Genre: Thriller Recommended: General Audience Released: 29 November 2019
Starring: Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Directed by: Rian Johnson
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A successful author of mystery books is found dead in his attic study in mysterious circumstances with his throat slit right after his 85th birthday celebrations, leaving behind a big fat bank balance and estate and his quibbling family. Knives Out movie review...
It looks like a suicide but someone does not seem to think so and mysteriously hires an eccentric ace detective to solve the death puzzle, the inquisition that follows a la Agatha Christie style points at every member of the family as suspect as each could have a motive and are lying through their rich pompous noses.
There's the younger son who it seems has been fired by the old man and is unable to cope with it , the daughter's husband is playing Rasputin behind her back and the elder son's widow is skimming on the old man's generosity all in all everyone of them had had a run in with the old man just before celebrations.
Each one of them has their reasons to be cross with him though they do try to portray a happy family picture, then there is the old man's pretty South American nurse who cannot digest lies and behaves very strangely at times which catches the eye of the detective Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig's character with an elaborate drawl and puffed cheeks, looks as if he is trying hard to shake off his Bond image though his handsomeness fails him.
Knives Out is a story which is tightly framed within the confines of the scenic locale of the death perceived murder and a few outdoor shots.
Though the cat is out of the bag before the interval if you have the intellect. The detective is also shown doing his investigation in a bumbling manner as if giving full chance to the perpetrator to escape and basing his deductions more on the conversations during inquisition and background checks rather than the usual crime scene physicalities .
But... but... but all things have to come out in a way so that all's well and that ends well in the end. Is it a murder, is it suicide or is it a true tribute to our beloved old dame Agatha, the jury or shall we say the knives are still out