And Mr Blanc, with his cigar and the studied insolence and timing of his questions, has something of Peter Falk’s much-missed Lieutenant Columbo.Ĭhristopher Plummer plays Harlan Thrombey, the 85-year-old bestselling mystery novelist whose chef d’oeuvre is 1000 Knives, a masterpiece that has inspired a bizarre decorative centrepiece in the drawing room of his vast rococo mansion: a huge “wheel” of sharp knives. It’s a Cluedo-board romp in the manner of Agatha Christie or TV’s Murder, She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury. Knives Out has a country house full of frowning suspects, deadpan servants and smirking ne’er-do-wells and an amusing performance from Daniel Craig as Benoît Blanc, the brilliant amateur sleuth from Louisiana who annoys the hell out of one and all by smiling enigmatically, occasionally plinking a jarring high note on the piano during the drawing-room interrogation and pronouncing in his southern burr: “Ah suh-spect far-wuhl play!” Now he does the same thing for cosy crime, although there is nothing that cosy about it. Back in 2005, his debut movie Brick (a high-school thriller) paid tribute to the hardboiled noir genre. R ian Johnson unsheathes an entertainingly nasty, if insubstantial detective mystery with his new film, Knives Out.
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