{"id":3563,"date":"2023-08-15T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T02:40:39","slug":"movie-glass-onion-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/15\/movie-glass-onion-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Glass Onion (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/62\/Glass_Onion_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Glass Onion\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2022<br \/>Rating: PG-13<br \/>Length: 139 minutes \/ 2.31 hours<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood has woefully underutilized the mystery genre for some time. It probably doesn\u2019t help that there aren\u2019t a lot of mysteries being written that have been adapted to the big screen. The two modern examples that come to mind are <em>Gone Girl<\/em> (2014) and <em>The Girl on the Train<\/em> (2016) but they\u2019re darker than the classic mysteries by Agatha Christie. That Hollywood is still releasing movies based on Christie\u2019s works (like <em>Murder on the Orient Express<\/em> (2017)) or Christie-adjacent works (like <a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/movie-see-how-they-run-2022\/\"><em>See How They Run<\/em><\/a> (2022)) shows there\u2019s a desire for ensemble-based mysteries. <em>Glass Onion<\/em> (2022) is the breath of fresh air in this somewhat stagnant genre.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad that <a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/21\/movie-knives-out-2019\/\"><em>Knives Out<\/em><\/a> (2019) did well enough to warrant a sequel with Daniel Craig\u2019s fantastic character, Benoit Blanc. <em>Glass Onion<\/em> takes that same humor and applies it in a biting satire against the hyper-wealthy and \u201cinfluencer\u201d types that all need to be taken down a peg anyway. Of course, this is in alignment with other satires of the ultra-rich that also came out this year: <a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/09\/movie-the-menu-2022\/\"><em>The Menu<\/em><\/a> (2022) and <em>Triangle of Sadness<\/em> (2022). Fortunately, all three movies are fantastic and I enjoyed every one of them for the social commentary they provide.<\/p>\n<p>As far as mysteries go, <em>Glass Onion<\/em> does a fantastic job of providing a setup and a midpoint twist that changes the whole perspective of the entire film. It still has the necessary trappings of these kinds of mysteries, with the \u201csomeone on this island is the murderer\u201d locked room setup. However, the execution of these genre tropes was quite entertaining. I hope these Benoit Blanc mysteries keep coming because they are now a \u201cmust-watch\u201d in my book. Rian Johnson certainly has a goldmine here.<\/p>\n<p>A comedic mystery poking fun at rich influencers, I give <em>Glass Onion<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2.jpg 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-640x244.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryYear: 2022Rating: PG-13Length: 139 minutes \/ 2.31 hours Hollywood has woefully underutilized the mystery genre for some time. It probably doesn\u2019t help that there aren\u2019t a lot of mysteries being written that have been adapted to the big screen. The two modern examples that come to mind are Gone Girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[3107,3448,1242,3449,3443,2142,13,8,2143],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-movie","tag-3107","tag-benoit-blanc","tag-daniel-craig","tag-edward-norton","tag-glass-onion","tag-knives-out","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-rian-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}