Knives Out #3

[DeejRC]

Ladies and gentlemen, I have done you all a public service.
I have watched this, so you don’t have to.

You may now enjoy Xmas free from the torment of wondering if you need watch this god awful damn nr 3hr long festering pile of wk.
Heed my words: you do not.

[EmailAddress]

ffs

Was hoping they could recapture some of the first ones fun.

[TGCOTF-dewey]

92 percent on rotten tomatoes and 7.5 on IMDb so YMMV.

Haven't seen it yet TBF so I may ultimately agree with you.

[dontlookdown]

Better than the second one, an admittedly low bar. Enjoyable but at least 20mins too long. Sadly fails to recapture the simple fun and silliness that was the main charm of the first one.

[PinkTornado]

DeejRC said:

Ladies and gentlemen, I have done you all a public service.
I have watched this, so you don t have to.

You may now enjoy Xmas free from the torment of wondering if you need watch this god awful damn nr 3hr long festering pile of wk.
Heed my words: you do not.

Not keen, then?!

[Help78]

We got about 90 mins in (still had another hour to go) before we decided to give up.

I agree with the OP in saying spare yourself the trouble

[CSNY]

Help78 said:

We got about 90 mins in (still had another hour to go) before we decided to give up.

I agree with the OP in saying spare yourself the trouble

Same here - we got about 30 minutes in and turned off.

[raceboy]

Watched it last night, it's not 'terrible' but it's not great, it wasted a Monday night.
Called the perpetrator in the first 10 minutes, how can something with Bond AND Felix in be so Meh.

[JoshSm]

There's nothing wrong with it, it just isn't what you'd expect based on watching the others.

I'd almost think they'd got a spec script or something from another source and converted it into a 'Knives Out' film by changing a few names (as happened with the Die Hard sequels).

I quite liked it in itself but it's not exactly part of the set is it.

[Mikebentley]

Against the grain but I actually enjoyed it and found it filled an evening. Did also spot it was clearly filmed in UK as I said to my wife that’s not an American home.

[JoshSm]

Mikebentley said:

Against the grain but I actually enjoyed it and found it filled an evening. Did also spot it was clearly filmed in UK as I said to my wife that s not an American home.

Very obviously not an American church either. Guess they decided it didn't matter about locations being coherent.

Was all fairly noticable, if not quite as glaring as Deepcut standing in for the 'American South' in Kingsman.

[fooman]

I enjoyed it, more so than #2. I think the problem with streaming platforms is people will just watch whatever is new without asking is this for me? It was same for The Banshees of Inisherin, another well regarded character based film that I enjoyed but for some you'd think the director had pooped on their doorstep. Stop watching if you don't like it let alone endlessly bang on about it! Try not to be defined by the things you hate.

[Odysseus01]

Very poor compared to the first one. I didn't mind the second one though so my judgment might not be trustworthy based on most of the above.

[PinkTornado]

Managed to watch the whole thing, but it is pretty weak- it doesn't justify the run time, and it is fairly easy to spot the 'who' early on.

[p1doc]

watched it with family last night better than 2 not as good as 1 but did drag on -josh brolin was great though

[PinkTornado]

...as was Josh O'Connor, to be fair. The film isn't awful, but it just isn't as clever as IT thinks it is.

[Granadier]

We enjoyed it more than the second film. Some clever twists and turns but I can see why some would find it boring. Apart from the two main priests, none of the characters are very fleshed out or interesting.

[Countdown]

Watched it in two sittings as I was nodding off after a heavy evening meal.

I thought it was good - reasonably easy going family viewing although perhaps not as good as 1 or 2 IMO

[outnumbered]

We watched it and thought it was OK - definitely a bit long, but haven't they all been like that ?

[Trash_panda]

JoshSm said:

There's nothing wrong with it, it just isn't what you'd expect based on watching the others.

I'd almost think they'd got a spec script or something from another source and converted it into a 'Knives Out' film by changing a few names (as happened with the Die Hard sequels).

I quite liked it in itself but it's not exactly part of the set is it.

Pointless trivia but the last rambo (vs Mexican cartel), was meant to be a die hard movie and banded about in the mid-late 90's(?) But never got developed