{"id":2003544,"date":"2025-09-07T06:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2003544"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:43:34","slug":"wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-review-daniel-craig-returns-but-josh-oconnor-steals-the-spotlight-in-rian-johnsons-overworked-threequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-review-daniel-craig-returns-but-josh-oconnor-steals-the-spotlight-in-rian-johnsons-overworked-threequel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery\u2019 Review: Daniel Craig Returns but Josh O\u2019Connor Steals the Spotlight in Rian Johnson\u2019s Overworked Threequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Imagine a literary mash-up of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0156363\/\">G.K. Chesterton<\/a>\u2019s Father <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2151947\/\">Brown<\/a> amateur detective stories and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0139757\/\">John Dickson Carr<\/a>\u2019s locked-room mystery The Hollow Man, together with what appears to be a sly takedown of a current political leader whose power comes from preaching anger and fear. The result is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14364480\/\">Wake Up Dead Man<\/a>, the third entry in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0426059\/\">Rian Johnson<\/a>\u2019s Knives Out murder mystery series. The new film promises a return from the exhausting Greek Island excesses of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11564570\/\">Glass Onion<\/a> to the more compact pleasures of the first movie, swapping the country house for a small Catholic church and rectory in upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p>But appearances can be deceptive, as any good sleuth knows, and this puzzler with neo-Gothic trappings, while it gets off to a promising and very funny start, becomes too clever and convoluted for its own good. That starts to become apparent almost as soon as the investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a literary mash-up of G.K. 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