Knives Out [DVD] [2019]

Reviews

Oskr garcia

Everyone has their time to shine! I had just watched Murder on the Orient Express just before this, and I honestly got more jollies out of that one than I did in this. I can't say I was surprised by the ending, and felt that I had kind of put together the pieces by the end for them to be locked into place.

Luis Josue Casas Galvan

Following Brick with movies like this really make me think he should continue doing more modern day mysteries and resurrecting or maybe twisting the genre into a new, fun direction. It's a perfect mix of styles old & new, and it's layered storytelling at its finest. Came on time but with a scuff on the bottom right. You can see that in some of the casting in this film, however there are some newer players to the game in this one as well.

sixthreezy

For one, I don't think this type of mystery generally plays to the audience that it had in mind. He's a great filmmaker and continues to display a great eye as a director. I enjoyed this movie a lot and the 4k disc does not disappoint.

Marshal Williams

I'm happy for Rian Johnson that he found a passion project like this one after flopping on Star Wars (I don't think he did, but it's the common sentiment). And honestly, that's because he's so absurdly silly in this weird way that it's just completely absorbing to watch him unravel the mystery. Very artistic film with a stacked cast of familiar faces.

There's a lot of attention to detail and the special features will make that abundantly clear, and for that I really appreciate this film. But please, please, please make another movie with Daniel Craig's detective, which I do believe they are making a Knives Out 2. I think the main reason for that is they really don't make any one character likable in this movie other than Daniel Craig's detective.

Whodunits and mysteries of this sort are from the past, so generally your audience is going to be much older. I think it's a great movie and a great mystery, but I do think it's overplayed as being sort of a ground breaking film, and in a way it is, but also there's other great whodunits and mysteries out there but usually don't take place in the modern era. He is the sole reason to watch this movie, but everyone else is also phenomenal in their roles.

However, I really do think this film was overhyped and there's probably a lot of rational reason for that. Not too much of a big deal to me though. I really think a repeat viewing will be worth your time, as I really enjoyed watching both commentaries by Rian Johnson. I think the best thing going for this film is that it takes place in a modern time.