Netflix: 35 million watch Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery over Christmas
Created: 12/29/2022, 4:00 p.m
By: Katja Kraft
His steel blue eyes have everything in view again: detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig).
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The sequel to "Knives Out" is now running on Netflix after the successful theatrical release.
And gave the streaming service a Merry Christmas.
Daniel Craig at his best!
Our film review.
Of course, one could have waited until Netflix showed this film on its streaming service.
Strategically very cleverly chosen date: December 23, 2022. But if you wanted to give yourself a real Christmas present, you got up from your sofa at the end of November and trudged into the cinema.
There, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the fan-anticipated sequel to Knives Out, ran for a few weeks.
Not because the Netflix directors suddenly developed something like sympathy for the cinema operators out of sheer Advent bliss;
they were concerned with the upcoming awards season.
Fortunately, only works that can be seen in movie theaters are still considered for the Oscars and Co.
Because that's what movies were made for.
Five friends, five suspects: (from left) Claire Debella (Kathryn Hahn), Whiskey (Madelyn Cline), Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Birdie (Kate Hudson).
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Especially this one.
Netflix as a producer or not: "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" almost begs to drop into the red velvet armchairs with a group of puzzle-loving friends - and to embark on a whodunit crime thriller in the best Agatha Christie tradition.
As in the financially phenomenally successful and critically acclaimed first part, director and screenwriter Rian Johnson once again relies on the audience's desire to guess: "Who did it?" Some suspects with understandable motives and sufficient opportunities for murder come up in question.
murder of whom?
Don't betray here.
Because then it's less fun, this game "Cluedo" that has become a film.
Daniel Craig is stepping away from the role of James Bond
In addition to crime nostalgia, she lives mainly from her male protagonist.
Daniel Craig is clearly enjoying himself as the super smart detective Benoit Blanc again.
And Rian Johnson to play with the audience's expectations of the investigator.
Because of course everyone associates Daniel Craig with his super-cool appearances as the tough dog James Bond.
The gentle gentleman Benoit Blanc, on the other hand, doesn't need a license to kill or a strong upper body (and luckily he still has it) to solve tricky cases.
This detective trusts his heart and brain.
and joke.
"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" lures on a private island
At the beginning of the humorous 139 minutes there is the question of what is actually going on with the shrill group that has gathered on the private island of billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton).
Self-absorbed Miles has invited his friends Duke (Dave Bautista), Claire (Kathryn Hahn), Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Birdie (Kate Hudson) for a weekend together, as he does every year.
It is always connected with a funny crime game.
But this time it's supposed to be about Miles' own death, which is of course only played.
A gag conceived by the host.
Then Miles' former business partner, whom he has sacked, turns up on the island - and everything turns out a little differently than planned.
Two very entertaining guessing hours, enriched with jokes, allusions and cameo appearances (Hugh Grant! Serena Williams!), follow for the viewers.
