Glass Onion (2022) ***

While I can't be too hard on a film that is designed simply to be fun (and Glass Onion (2022) is undeniably that), I found Rian Johnson's follow-up to his 2019 whodunnit, Knives Out (review) to be a weaker effort. The characters aren't used as effectively and the celebrities playing them aren't as interesting. Much of the humor is a bit too broad for my tastes (though there are definitely some choice jokes). I felt the runtime more here as well—KO was already 2 hours and 10 minutes long and GO is another 10 minutes on top of that. KO was just as much fun on a rewatch but I'm not sure that will be the case with GO. Time will tell. In any case, this was enjoyable and I'll show up for the third film (which, honestly, does anyone really need the “A Knives Out Mystery” subtitle for?).

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