SPOILER-ish
It’s just as well that I usually (not always) keep note of films that I have seen, because it was only by consulting this blog that I discovered that I had in fact seen the first Knives Out movie, just as my husband said I had. And it seems that I enjoyed it, too, just as I enjoyed this third movie in the series. As with the first movie, it has a brilliant cast including Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc, along with Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Andrew Scott).
Josh O’Connor plays ex-boxer turned priest Jud Duplenticy who is assigned to the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude after punching another deacon. There he finds a small congregation in the thrall of the vindictive and thundering Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), who had taken over the parish from his grandfather. (Not quite sure how these familial links work with a supposedly celibate priesthood?) When Monsignor Wicks is found murdered in a small anteroom adjoining the altar, in full view of the congregation, which of the misfit congregation could have done it? Or was it Fr Dupenticy himself, even though the congregation could see him sitting there beside the altar?
Actually, I guessed who the murderer was early in the movie, which is most unusual for me. However, I was glad that the end of the movie tied up the convoluted plot neatly. Good fun.
My rating: 4 stars (out of 5)
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