Hello friends. Welcome back to Critique-o-polis. Today, Jay and I discuss the third installment of The Knives Out series: Wake Up, Dead Man.
As with the previous two movies, the location is remote, set aside from the busy city and focuses the viewer on the story AKA the crime at hand. Wake Up, Dead Man is set in a small, fictional village, Chimney Rocks. The movie centers around a local Church with a small congregation, one that is led by Monsignor Wicks (played by Josh Brolin). Monsignor Wicks has a very close group of Church attendees, all with different personalities and different "levels" of faith.
During his Good Friday mass, Monsignor Wicks in murdered, but how and by whom? Did the young, new hire Father Jud - played by Josh O'Connor, commit the crime? He was the closest to the Monsignor when he died ... Or did someone else mysteriously let themselves into the Church, get up behind the altar and commit murder? Hard to say ... Let's call in Benoit Blanc - played by Daniel Craig to help solve the case.
There are many details and layers to this story and to solving the case of the mysterious murder of Monsignor Wicks. The movie is led by an all star cast, including Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Thomas Haden Church, Jeremy Renner, Jeffrey Wright, and Glenn Close in the role of Martha.
If you are looking for a good mystery and you are not starting it too late in the evening (the movie has a run time of 2:24), then you should check out this entertaining most recent installment in the Knives Out series.
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