10 Smart Movies Which Are Secretly Dumb
5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Like its predecessor, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a deftly woven murder-mystery which sees writer-director Rian Johnson delight in wrapping the audience around his little finger.
It's an undeniably fun ride, even if its pleasures are considerably more superficial than its now-Oscar-nominated script would surely like you to believe.
First and foremost, this is just the latest in an increasingly tiresome avalanche of "eat the rich" films flooding our screens in recent times.
Again, it's fun seeing Elon Musk stand-in Miles Bron (Edward Norton) get his just desserts, but as detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) literally points out later on, the plot spins on the axis of Bron's murder plot being so shambolically stupid.
The slippery, non-linear means through which Johnson slots everything together is certainly smart, but in both its messaging and the particulars of the plot when laid out in linear order, it's actually outrageously simplistic, even dumb.
We all love dumping on the wealthy elite, but it just feels like low-hanging fruit for a filmmaker as intelligent as Johnson.