To confess to a priest is to be exposed. To confess to the police is to be absolved - "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" Spoiler-Free Review
The new Rian Johnson whodunnit "Knives Out" film is quite good. I was very disappointed by "Glass Onion" back in 2022, and I had seen it 3 times by now and I am still not impressed. I think it's just a watchable film, but the plot is overcomplicated with not enough information for the mystery to act as a good mystery. This is a similar gripe I have with the new film "Wake up dead man" but this one is the most thematic, emotionally resonant, deeply meaningful film yet. The film chooses to be a film about faith and the search for truth disguised as a whodunnit. Similar to how the first "Knives Out" film is a satire disguised as a whodunnit. I feel like Rian Johnson seems to over complicate the mystery elements of this film. The murder mystery investigation just moves forward constantly at a rate that the audience cannot follow, and therefore we just have to watch Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, just solve the mystery without us. We don...