Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

[TiQuinn]

Wake Up Dead Man was excellent on both themes/characters and the mystery, as well as both a really committed homage to the village murder mystery and a genuinely affecting discussion of religion in a way that G K Chesterton would have loved. Oh, and the Dead Man is American Christian morality.

Yeah, the nature of faith theme was a solid backdrop to this movie, and Josh O’Connor was absolutely spot-on playing someone who was having his reasons for this faith challenged from every direction. I was also cackling every time Josh Brolin was onscreen - particularly his “confession” scene. Throw in a classic locked door mystery, the Christie/Chesterton trappings…chef’s kiss

 

[Vael]

I liked it, but wanted more from the suspects, they felt more lightly sketched than the Disruptors or Thrombeys from the first two movies.

 

[overgeeked]

We just saw it today. It's the most religion I've dealt with on Christmas in my life.

I'm not sure it's really a fair-play mystery. Good movie though.

If we're ranking the trilogy, for me it's 1, 3, 2.