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An eccentric tech billionaire invites a group of his friends, as well as Daniel Craig's famous detective Benoit Blanc, for a weekend murder mystery game getaway on a remote Greek island. Things don't go quite as planned, and things get more serious than intended.

While this is titled as 'a Knives Out mystery', there is no connection to the previous film aside from Daniel Craig. The film at the start does give off a bit of a Last of Sheila vibe, but then turns things into something more of its own. As suitable for a mystery film, there are plenty of twists and turns along the way.

Overall I found the film broadly entertaining, the cast of characters varied and interesting, even if there was a bit of overacting (Foghorn Leghorn is back at full throttle). The story and characters kept me hooked the whole way through, however I do think the final act was a bit disappointing for me as it got a bit too silly.

Another thing the film played on was that it explicitly referenced the pandemic, restrictions, masks etc several times, dating the film to a very specific period. While some elements of it served the story, others were just unnecessary and tacked on. While relevant now, I think in a few years time people may be a bit confused by it.

7/10 - decent entertainment, but not much more than that.

I went into this film relatively blind, not having seen the trailer and only having read the one sentence plot summary. I'm not going to try to put my own version of the plot summary in here as I can't say I truly followed what was going on, but its something to do with body parts and changes to human physiology in a dystopian future.

As I mentioned in my review title, this film is quite incomprehensible. Now I completely get that a film doesn't need to spoon feed the audience everything and gives their intelligence some credit, and not everything even needs a nice tight explanation. The problem with this film is that its gone too far in the other direction, where too little is explained, and so many things are just so plain weird that they make no sense at all. In fact very little in this film makes much sense and there are so many bizarre occurances that come out of nowhere.

Although the special effects are good, the film is let down by the dialogue being mumbling, which makes a difficult to follow/understand film even worse. The effect of all this is that I at least felt no emotional connection to anything in the film, it just sort of happened before my eyes, but as nothing really made sense, then I didn't really care for any of the characters or story. It was just dull.

I have no idea where the film seemed to get its high Rotten Tomatoes score, its really not worth it.