Part mystery, part drama, part comedy… Knives Out is jolly good fun! At two hours and ten minutes, it’s half an hour too long for my personal taste but other than that, I really only have good things to say about this one.
Christopher Plummer stars as Harlan Thrombey, an ageing crime author sitting on a fortune over which his family will fight when he dies. BUT WHO KILLED HIM?! Line up for questioning by private investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig with a dumb accent), family and hangers on! The cast of family and hangers on is impressive - Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans and Toni Collette among them. The investigation is camp but genuinely mysterious, not unlike that in the 1985 hit motion picture Clue.
The Herald Sun has given it 5 stars which is a fraction too generous in my view. It’s more like four stars, I reckon, which is what The Independent has given it.
Knives Out opens Thursday 28 November and is rated M. Trailer here.