Having enjoyed the first two Knives Out movies, I had to wait until Wake Up, Dead Man arrived for it's one day showing at the Rex, Berkhamsted. As it is a Netflix production, it failed to be shown in either Odeon or Cineworld cinemas, unlike the first two. See posts of 13th December 2019 and 1st December 2022. The latest story revolves around Josh O'Connor as the assistant pastor at the isolated church of Out Lady of Perpetual Fortitde. It's the pastor there Josh Brolin who provides the body for a typical locked room mystery. There are, as in all these things, an all star cast, any one of whom could or could not be the murderer.
This, for me, this is so much like an Agatha Christie drama. Substitute private detective Benoit Blanc (played full titlt by Daniel Craig) for any Poirot or Miss Marple story. Christie paved the way for all those detective dramas with multiple suspects. But now, most of these were made for TV, so this felt different on the big screen. For once I'm going to avoid going through the whole cast, only to say that Andrew Scott was hilarious as a fauiling writer. I found the plot was a little convoluted and the explanation was done in a flash. But this is a terrific black comedy and I did laugh a lot. There is an excellent script and sharp and clever dialogue from writer and director Rian Johnson. As Mark Kermode said in his glowing review, no-one else is making these kind of films any more.
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