A spoiler-free review should be brief. I'll stay away from the plot and just say that you can tell how much fun everyone had making it, starting with Rian Johnson, who is an excellent screenwriter. He challenged himself with this one and I think he came through with flying colours. Then the actors, you can feel the fun they're having, shooting in Greece and all. Daniel Craig's accent is all over the place, Janelle Monáe is enjoying every frame, Dave Bautista always happy to be there... then there's Kate Hudson, who in my opinion absolutely owns it, hilarious, a comeback almost befitting Tarantino.
This kind of film is a one-time viewing, and I had a lot more fun with it than I did with the, now in retrospect, self-serious Knives Out. For such a twist-o-rama, it's really quite an achievement to keep it so tight and fun without missing a beat, or rather, to pull through two hours of nonsense without collapsing. I rate it only a 7 because, honestly, it's pretty silly, and very noisy. I could understand someone prefering the tidiness, in substance and form, of Knives Out. For once I'm gonna pick the dumb movie.
Right at the beginning there are a couple of cheap sneers at both Wokism and men's rights, I don't think they're political at all. I saw it as an early statement to the audience: "forget reality (what is reality?), this is just for fun". Well, and money, but yeah, for us it's just fun.
This kind of film is a one-time viewing, and I had a lot more fun with it than I did with the, now in retrospect, self-serious Knives Out. For such a twist-o-rama, it's really quite an achievement to keep it so tight and fun without missing a beat, or rather, to pull through two hours of nonsense without collapsing. I rate it only a 7 because, honestly, it's pretty silly, and very noisy. I could understand someone prefering the tidiness, in substance and form, of Knives Out. For once I'm gonna pick the dumb movie.
Right at the beginning there are a couple of cheap sneers at both Wokism and men's rights, I don't think they're political at all. I saw it as an early statement to the audience: "forget reality (what is reality?), this is just for fun". Well, and money, but yeah, for us it's just fun.