BLANC
Something is afoot with this whole affair. I know it, and I believe you know it.
MARTA
So you're... going to keep digging.
BLANC
Harlan's detectives they dig, they rifle and root, truffle pigs. I anticipate the terminus of gravity's rainbow.
MARTA
Gravity's Rainbow.
BLANC
It's a novel.
MARTA
I know. I haven't read it.
BLANC
Neither have I. Nobody has. But I like the title.
The Knives Out screenplay was an engrossing, quick read. A quirky, cleverly structured black comedy whodunit with hilarious dialogue and some delightful character portraits.
The film was a joy to watch, with many wonderfully directed scenes and terrific performances all around. There were some fun casting choices, but I felt that Ana de Armas was miscast as Marta. She resembles too much the same spoiled wealthy family members who are patronizing to her. There are quite a few other Latino actresses that would have been a better fit for this role. Also it was an odd directorial choice to have the actresses playing her mother and sister sound like native English speakers while Ana sounds FOB.
It has several good twists and turns and the cinematography is well done. Not your average "Whodunit?" in the slightest bit and that limits a few potentially good avenues it could have taken, you can feel the gears shift dramatically mid-way through. At well over two hours in length it could have gone in a few more perplexing directions. I agree with "MrDoog", it would have greatly improved the film if more characters were targets of suspicion.
The more characters that appear to be guilty, the more the viewer is forced to consider alternate plots and subplots, and early on that appears to be the direction, until it's simply abandoned.
Average movie but a fresh breath to a forgotten genre for our times. There were whodunnit tries like agatha christie remakes. But this one tried a new thing. Maybe this would lead better movies on this crime subgenre.
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mysteryfan
Okay the suspense is good, but the first half is very tedious, drawn out and irritating. Overall an average movie.mrjellow
Spoiled by the treatment of cinema as a political manifesto.chunkylefunga
Very disappointed with this film.Couldn't have been more predictable and it seems to almost be a piss-take whodunnit who it's not supposed to be.
Daniel's attempt at a Southern accent was very distracting. If you can't do an accent, don't put out a half-arsed one.
Really don't understand how this is on imdb's top 250 movies. Though I'm confident it won't be come 2020.
shitmovies
Agenda-riddled dogshit full of annoying idiot agenda characters.How far he's fallen since Brick.
Withnail33
Knives out, vomit spoutdevilsadvocado
Holy shit, M. Emmet Walsh is still alive (kind of)BadFluffy
Sorely disappointed by this. After all the hype and the praises, I was expecting it to be... interesting? Intriguing? Not predictable and by the numbers as it was.A star studded cast, wholly misused, if used at all.
It felt like an Agatha Christie movie. Overbaked and undercooked. A weak murder mystery with cliché characters and dynamics, cut by flashbacks of bland self important monologues.
p0sthuman
The Knives Out screenplay was an engrossing, quick read. A quirky, cleverly structured black comedy whodunit with hilarious dialogue and some delightful character portraits.
The film was a joy to watch, with many wonderfully directed scenes and terrific performances all around. There were some fun casting choices, but I felt that Ana de Armas was miscast as Marta. She resembles too much the same spoiled wealthy family members who are patronizing to her. There are quite a few other Latino actresses that would have been a better fit for this role. Also it was an odd directorial choice to have the actresses playing her mother and sister sound like native English speakers while Ana sounds FOB.
heat_
A bit overstretched in terms of storytelling however not a bad watch.DisneyStitch
It has several good twists and turns and the cinematography is well done. Not your average "Whodunit?" in the slightest bit and that limits a few potentially good avenues it could have taken, you can feel the gears shift dramatically mid-way through. At well over two hours in length it could have gone in a few more perplexing directions. I agree with "MrDoog", it would have greatly improved the film if more characters were targets of suspicion.CineFagos
Forgettable.Emiam
6/10 (7.9/10 - 403,516 votes on IMDb - Oct 2020)Oh! How disappointed I was due to higher expectations! Never thought it lifted. What an anticlimax.
Earring72
Fun an exciting crime story. Great cast and some nice twists and turnsMonteyn
Average movie but a fresh breath to a forgotten genre for our times. There were whodunnit tries like agatha christie remakes. But this one tried a new thing. Maybe this would lead better movies on this crime subgenre.Hermit09
You know you have a problem when the main mystery in a detective movie is who hired the detective rather than who killed the victim.Showing items 1 – 15 of 19