Glass Onion (2022) Review
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A tech billionaire's private island weekend where the solution is that the clever man has nothing inside. Better as satire than as a puzzle.
Dave Bautista was a professional wrestler as Batista before Guardians of the Galaxy gave him Drax, whose complete literalism is the best running joke in those films.
He has been unusually deliberate about moving into dramatic work, taking Blade Runner 2049, Knock at the Cabin and Glass Onion.
Blade Runner 2049 opens with him, in a scene of considerable stillness, and he has said he took smaller serious roles specifically to avoid the action typecasting his background invited.
Daniel CraigGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A tech billionaire's private island weekend where the solution is that the clever man has nothing inside. Better as satire than as a puzzle.
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Benicio del Toro1 soundtrack, the cosmic Marvel foundation. The 6.5 reflects honest evaluation of one of the more creatively committed Phase Two MCU entries and the film that introduced cosmic Marvel to mainstream audiences.
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