A Good Rian Johnson Film?

Rating: 7/10 (2 December 2019)

I generally don't like Rian's work that much, but this movie was decent. It was competently done, well acted, had decent humour and put a nice spin on the whodunnit genre. It's one of the few examples with his work where I can actually get behind some of the expectation subversions because they actually make sense and don't ruin the established tone (unlike The Last Jedi). In fact I had no idea where it was going after the first act because it took the mystery, told us what happened (which I won't spoil) and then turns into more of a general mystery of double crosses and character motives that culminate at the end nicely. Also it has Chris Evans telling people to eat s!%t, so what's there not to like about that?