KNIVES OUT (2019) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Rian Johnson
Daniel Craig, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette,
Don Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ana de Armas,
Chris Evans, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford,
Frank Oz, K Callan, Edi Patterson, M. Emmett Walsh
Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, an extravagantly accented private eye hired anonymously by somebody to investigate the possible murder of a famous mystery novelist (Christopher Plummer), who turns up dead on his 85th birthday in a house overflowing with vicious relatives. Blanc's most reliable witness - his "Watson" - turns out to be the old man's nurse (Ana de Armas), who can't tell a lie without throwing up. The catch: She could also be the murderer. It's a devious good time, with a perfectly typecast cast going at it tooth and nail, and Craig drawling his lines and turning up clues like a corn-pone Columbo. M. Emmett Walsh, who's just a few years younger than Plummer, turns up for a couple of minutes and looks like he couldn't be having more fun.
