Knives Out was released in 2019on Wednesday, November 27, 2019(Nationwide release). There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including Queen & Slim, The Two Popesand The Irishman. When will the movie be on Blu-ray & DVD? Tuesday, February 25, 2020. Knives Out HD 7.90 130 min Nothing could blemish the otherwise lavish birthday party at the palatial estate of the acclaimed crime/mystery novelist, Harlan Thrombey, except for his strange and unaccountable death. Movies Similar to Knives Out (2019): Clue (1985) In a large, secluded Victorian mansion, several picturesque characters gather to dine at the mysterious invitation of an unknown host. They all have secrets to hide from those who have been vilely blackmailed for years. #KnivesOut 2019 Full Movie Watch online, free HD streaming and Download HD Film free instant on your PC, TV, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate.
I thought a lot about how I wanted to format this essay. When watching Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, I realized that the film is too good to just be given a regular 300-500 word film review. I wanted to analyze the film and compare it to my favorite Rian Johnson film, The Last Jedi. There’s quite a few reasons for that, but my main reasoning is that Johnson was, quite literally, harassed online for making the most polarizing Star Wars film. Two years later, Johnson’s film is still argued about online, mostly because the people who hate it still haven’t gotten over the feeling of betrayal that they felt after seeing the polarizing film. Early warning, there are major spoilers for Knives Out in this essay.
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Before writing this essay, I wanted to see just how far the hatred goes for The Last Jedi (TLJ.) I posted my Star Wars ranking on my Instagram @GeekCenter. My favorite Star Wars film is The Last Jedi, so naturally, I knew that the Star Wars community of followers that I have gathered over the years (I have 2,300 followers as of this essay) would start to comment. Yes, I was inciting arguments for the sake of reviewing a film.
Typically, I get 1 or 2 comments and gain 60 to 110 likes on each of my posts. My posts are typically seen by 600-1000 people, which means I get likes from about 10% of my audience, which is a good number. My Star Wars film ranking was seen by 3,900 people because people were interacting with my post more than normal. It has just 220 likes, which is about 6% interaction with the like button, and over 50 comments. A lot of the comments came from people who didn’t like the picture, and they were astoundingly angry. The comments had no gray area. Every single idea that was said under my post was black and white. Every comment is arguing that either I’m a complete idiot and don’t deserve to live because of my film ranking, or they love that I had the guts to post about my love for The Last Jedi and they completely agree. Again, there was no gray area.
Internet culture has ruined how general audiences watch films. They go in with preconceived notions, and act rashly on said notions. Rian Johnson felt the full force of both The Last Jedi’s love and hate. The worst part is, the hate was much louder, even if it is a smaller group of people. The audience that loves The Last Jedi are people who don’t seem to care what gender, race, or sexuality the actors are. They look at the film as a whole, and appreciate that Rey is a strong female character. The audience seems to understand that their heroes can fall, such as Luke’s arc in the film (though he is redeemed.) The people who hate the film are opposites. One comment on my Instagram post said “Last Jedi is easily the worst Star Wars creation in history. I’ve never cringed or been more confused during a movie because of all the SJW nonsense.” The problem with this critique (that is echoed by many) is that there is no SJW nonsense unless you believe that a woman being a strong character makes a film a film that panders to Social Justice Warriors. That belief makes one sexist, not as smart as these critiques the internet trolls seem to believe.
So, incomes Rian Johnson’s follow up, Knives Out. The film has an A-List cast with the likes of Chris Evans (Avengers: Endgame,) Daniel Craig (James Bond: Skyfall,) Toni Collete (Hereditary,) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween.) The ensemble brings the film to a level likened to masterful. Johnson shoots the film beautifully, the film’s script is full of twists and turns, and even the biggest TLJ haters admit that it’s a great film. The last part is odd, because the film’s evilest characters are based on the said haters.
Hear me out. It’s really obvious when one looks at the film from what I would take is Johnson’s perspective. Johnson worked on TLJ for years. He poured himself into the film, only to be met with hate from the internet’s worst trolls. These worst trolls are put into his antagonists, namely almost the entire family.
The people who hate SJWs? It’s obvious who they are. Knives Out’s main protagonist is an immigrant woman named Marta who was the caretaker for the head of the family (and the man murdered,) Harlan. Harlan is a good guy. He takes Marta into his home and befriends her. He takes care of her and tells her all his secrets. The family? Not so much.
It’s blatantly obvious that the family doesn’t really care about Marta when we find out that Marta wasn’t even invited to the funeral for Harlan. Multiple family members tell Marta that they lost the battle to let her come to the funeral, but it’s eventually obvious they’re all lying. None of the family care to know anything about her. They all think she came from different countries. Richard (played by Don Johnson) talks about how it’s fine that Trump puts kids into cages and separates families in front of Marta. These people aren’t just racist, but are unrepentant of it (it also doesn’t help that Richard is also cheating on his wife unrepentantly.) These people hate SJWs. Characters like Richard and Jacob are truly the type of people that would be angry for The Last Jedi for the idiotic reasons that I found most prominent in the troll’s comments under my post, and many of Rian Johnson’s.
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The film even outright calls Jacob (Jaeden Martell) a nazi. Marta’s only living friend in the family, Meg (Katherine Langford), calls him out for “swatting” Syrian refugees and his only retaliation is to call Meg an SJW. When that’s his only defense, it’s obvious that he is a true caricature of the people who trolled The Last Jedi for having strong female characters and an Asian woman cast. Jacob rarely has any dialogue, because the only thing he wants to do is sit on the internet, screaming into 4chan, Reddit, and Twitter. It’s the quiet types that are always the worst… Except when we get to Chris Evan’s character, Ransom.
Ransom is a stuck up, spoiled brat, who (spoiler alert) killed his grandfather. He was given everything in life, and when things don’t go his way (just as the trolls were angry that Luke was “changed” and weathered over his lifetime,) Harlan tells Ransom that he has cut the entire family from his will, and Ransom retaliates harshly. He’s smart, though. Ransom is never the racist in the family. He’s almost charming at times. He knows that he can conceive a plot to get to the others in the family and make sure everyone gets their cut of the will. He’s the alt-right YouTuber angry about strong women and changed old men. The person who click baits articles full of lies and deceit that convince the average audience member that, somehow, The Last Jedi is SJW propaganda, as if there’s such a thing. After the film released, there were a lot fewer people who truly hated TLJ until the Youtubers started making videos on why they hate them. When I look up The Last Jedi on Youtube, the first video on the list is a video called “Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a Complete Cinematic Failure.” The video has an astounding 8 million views. Videos bring up Mark Hamill, claiming that he hates the film, as if his views matter much more than they do. Ransom uses these tactics. He gets in Marta’s head, convincing her he’s a protagonist. He doesn’t outright lie to her for much of the film, which made me feel like he is actually the good guy. The hints of evil are there, but it’s hard to see (which also makes the film a great whodunnit.)
Knives Out is Johnson’s retaliation, and the trolls don’t even realize it. The film is genius. The subliminal messages can be caught, but only for the people who are listening. Knives Out is a deep, fun, and, most of all, meaningful whodunnit that will stick around for years to come, just like The Last Jedi has been talked on since 2017.
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Rating: A+
Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is a wildly successful mystery writer and he’s dead. His housekeeper Fran (Edi Patterson) finds him with a slit throat and the knife still in his hand. It looks like suicide, but there are some questions. After all, who really slits their own throat? A couple of cops (the wonderful pair of LaKeith Stanfield and Noah Segan) come to the Thrombey estate do a small investigation, just to make sure they’re not missing anything, and the film opens with their conversations with each of the Thrombey family members. Daughter Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a successful businesswoman with a shit husband named Richard (Don Johnson) and an awful son named Ransom (Chris Evans). Son Walt (Michael Shannon) runs the publishing side, but he’s been fighting a lot with dear old dad. Daughter-in-law Joni (Toni Collette) is deep into self-help but has been helping herself by ripping off the old man. Finally, there’s Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas), the real heroine of “Knives Out” and Harlan’s most trusted confidante. Can she help solve the case?
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The case may have just been closed if not for the arrival of the famous detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, who spins a southern drawl and oversized ego into something instantly memorable. Blanc was delivered a news story about the suicide and envelope of money. So someone thinks this is fishy. Why? And who? The question of who brought in Blanc drives the narrative as much as who killed Harlan. Johnson is constantly presenting viewers with the familiar, especially fans of the mystery movie—the single palatial setting, the family of monsters, the exaggerated detective—but then he subverts them every so slightly, and it feels fresh. So while Blanc feels like a Poirot riff, Johnson and Craig avoid turning it into a caricature of something we’ve seen before.
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Craig is delightful—I love the excitement in his voice when he figures things out late in the film—but some of the cast gets lost. It’s inevitable with one this big, but if you’re going to “Knives Out” for a specific actor or actress, be aware that it’s a large ensemble piece and your fave may get short shrift. Unless your favorite is Ana de Armas, who is really the heart of the movie, allowing Johnson to imbue “Knives Out” with some wonderful political commentary. The Thrombeys claim to love Marta, even if they can’t remember which South American country she comes from, and Don Johnson gets a few razor sharp scenes as the kind of guy who rants about immigration before quoting “Hamilton.” It’s not embedded in the entire piece as much as “Get Out,” but this “Out” is similar in the way it uses genre structure to say something about wealth and social inequality. And in terms of performance, the often-promising de Armas has never been handed a role this big, and she totally delivers.