The Knives Out marketing campaign has honed in brilliantly on all its best elements. Full cast photos like this become stilted family portraits. Images courtesy Lionsgate.
9/10 I had the chance to see Knives Out for free and couldn’t wait for the chance to pay to see it again. It is so much fun. It’s a kind of fun I’d almost given up on having in a movie theater.
Knives Out opens the morning after the apparent suicide of Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a wealthy mystery novelist who celebrated his 85th birthday the previous evening with his entire extended family. The death seems cut-and-dry, but with Harlan’s $60 million fortune and publishing empire hanging in the balance, private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) sees a kaleidoscope of possible motives for son-in-law Richard Drysdale (Don Johnson), his son Ransom Drysdale (Chris Evans), widowed daughter-in-law Joni Thrombey (Toni Collette) or youngest son Walt Thrombey (Michael Shannon) to have done Harlan in, and all of them immediately start lying. Blanc’s only assistance comes from Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas), Harlan’s nurse from a non-descript South American country, who suffers from a condition that causes her to vomit uncontrollably when she tells a lie.
