The first reviews are out for Rian Johnson’s highly-anticipated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” the sequel to 2019’s murder mystery hit “Knives Out”.
The new film had an early screening during this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, with reactions and reviews indicating the film is bigger, smarter and packed with more twists than the original and plays as very much its own thing.
Indiewire says Johnson “is having a hell of a time lightly deconstructing it and reorienting it to suit his whipsmart script and central super detective… This is zippily and zanily its own thrill ride, and Johnson can’t churn these babies out fast enough.”
Variety says the film “expands into something even more extravagant than the first ‘Knives Out,’ which is what you want, even if at moments it can feel like a little more than you want… a bigger, showier, even more elaborately multi-faceted shell-game mystery.”
According to THR, the film offers “more action, more delicious comeuppances, more daring design and a few genuinely surprising cameos just for good measure. Yet it doesn’t suffer from the usual ‘give ’em the same thing, but more of it’ bloat common in sequels.”
The Guardian was less enamoured, saying: “Johnson’s more extravagant and often indulgent sequel will likely find those who prefer it to the original, it’s so stuffed with so much that it’ll surely prove more fun to those who appreciate getting more bang for their buck.”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” will be released in cinemas in November and on Netflix on December 23rd.
