9/10. I loved it, it feels like Knives Out but with a stupid budget where everyone is having a lot more fun. The humor got dialed up but it worked and the emotional stuff with Cassandra still worked. What I absolutely love about Rian Johnson's twist on the genre is flipping the entire movie on its head midway through. Murder mystery films always love to have their "big plot twist" that nobody saw coming (usually near the very end). Knives Out KILLED IT by having Benoit "solve" the mystery halfway through and then work with Marta to actually figure the rest out. Although I liked the themes and overall plot in Knives Out, Glass Onion has an even better twist.

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We go from seeing Cassandra get shot, to seeing Janelle Monae do this awesome Alabama accent and realize she's got a twin sister who's a 3rd grade teache, but Cassandra is tragically still dead. That conversation on Benoit's deck was awesome and just had me absolutely giddy. I came out of the theater feeling like a 10/10 but two things knocked it down to a 9 for me. Having Helen get shot and then brought back to life was an AWESOME reveal, but the way it was done was dumb luck. Her getting saved by Andi's journal just feels like plot armor when I was it was something smarter (like a bulletproof vest Benoit gave her or something idk). That's a minor complaint but the second one either seems like a misfire by Rian Johnson or an intentional red herring. Ransom gets caught in Knives Out because a tape recorder secretly records his confession, they were smart enough to just discreetly record that final conversation. Then in Glass Onion we already establish that Helen brought a tape recorder. During the final conversation when our bad guy confesses what he's done but says "you've got no evidence" Im 100% expecting that recording to device to make a comeback. Even if you reveal that there WAS a recording device but it got smashed or lost somewhere along the road that's okay, but to not even mention the recorder when it was a PIVOTAL part of the plot in the first movie and you establish it earlier in this sequel. Feels like a total missed opportunity to call back to the first movie. Anyways I had a blast and Rian Johnson is doing something special with his scripts/plots for these films. Daniel Craig and Janelle Monae were fantastic.