Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review!

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review!

 

Glass Onion: A Knife Out Mystery tells the story of billionaire Miles Bron, who invites his friends to spend the weekend on his private island.But when one of these friends is killed in mysterious circumstances, the detective, Benoit Blanc, is forced to play his usual role and try to decipher the sudden crime.

The movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery enjoyed a team of actors that combines those with great experience working in “Hollywood” with some new young stars who imposed themselves on the scene as brilliant performers, the best of them here, of course, is the action hero “Daniel Craig” in the role of “Benoit Blanc.” Who actually took “Craig” out of the mantle of “James Bond” and showed us a different, fun version of him that reflects the character’s intelligence and ability to keep up with things and reveal the truth with confidence.

There is also the distinguished appearance of the brilliant star “Edward Norton” in the role of “Miles Bron”, who for the second time excels in the role of the devious and deceitful character, as was the case in the movie “The Italian Job”, in addition to “Janelle Monae”, who has a serious and distinguished performance here in the movie, Likewise, the returning “Kate Hudson”, who still maintains her cheerful charisma and shines in her presentation here with great success.

There is no doubt that the movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is an ideal example of what should result in any extension or other parts of an important work that won the admiration of critics and audience in the same time, especially when it comes to the second part of one of the films that presented, at the time of its presentation in 2019, a modern concept of the quality of A classic of cinema, which is the crime and mystery films called whodunit movies or “who the killer”!.

The credit for this goes to the ingenuity of the distinguished director and author “Ryan Johnson”, who created a balance between the usual mechanism for this type of work and the development of some elements in order to keep pace with the current cinematic development in terms of ideas and their closeness to reality in a large way, while taking care to ensure the element of entertainment that attracts the attention of recipients and captures On their focus throughout the time allotted for the film in order to focus on the details of the mystery and try to decipher its mysterious symbols.

Therefore, compared to the first part, it can be said that the movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery presents something different. Its creator, “Ryan Johnson”, has succeeded in the present time in the element of entertainment, with reference to the content of the film within its events with appropriate artistic treatment, and presents the most beautiful cinematic gift at the end of this year 2022, perhaps. It would have been better if it was shown in the cinemas, which, would inevitably find a turnout for watching this work, which is certain to happen in large proportions.

Director and author “Ryan Johnson” chose to divide the story of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery into two chapters of equal importance in terms of conducting the main line of events, then returning to the past in a flashback style in order to reveal some facts related to the crime, up to the decisive moments and revealing the truth in all its aspects. Its twisting and clashing is the most appropriate way to tell this story in terms of ensuring that the viewer knows all the participating characters and the background of each one of them.

As well as understanding some of the motives and imprint of the characters that make them within the circle of accusation and that each one of them is a suspect and could cause the murder in a specific way of his own. The other feature of the scenario is derived from the first part, which is the idea that he is trying to renew the crime cinema in truly exceptional ways.

This is evident through certain details within the story, such as designing the idea of the Glass Onion, for example, and the atmosphere is not aggravated and topped by entertainment and fun throughout the two hours of the film, in contrast to the seriousness of the films based on the stories of “Agatha Christie” such as “Death on the Nile”, which She can't make her character as close to viewers as she did that particular element in Ryan Johnson's script.

Two important points that are positive in the interest of the scenario are also related to the logical inflections that occurred in the second half of the film, and with great degrees of shock to the viewer and deception also in terms of the appearance of some details related to the mystery that is supposed to be deciphered in the end. The second thing is represented in the intelligence of the author “Ryan Johnson” in presenting Some projections and symbols directly and indirectly at another time that are closely related to reality, and this may make “Johnson” for the second time a candidate in the Oscar script category this year.

In conclusion, it is expected that the “Knives Out” film will extend to more than one part in the coming years, and it is expected that these upcoming works will enjoy a share of great success due to the presence of an accomplished filmmaker such as “Ryan Johnson” who is able to present the appropriate story with greater and more difficult challenges than before it. And give up high quality at the level of events and ideas presented.