POSITIVES
It’s a Whodunnit! Who doesn’t like watching these kinds of films and try to solve the case before it’s officially revealed?
A huge part of what makes this movie a fun watch is the dialogue. The play on words. The back-and-forth. The self-aware humor. The puns. The sense of humor and jokes in this are just delightful.
Sam Rockwell is good as Inspector Stoppard and gives his character a nuanced performance, however Saoirse Ronan as Constable Stalker is the one who completely steals this movie with her inexperienced but very eager character who has an adorable sense of humor and speaks her mind often. The rest of the supporting cast also deserve kudos, like Adrien Brody, David Oyelowo, Harris Dickinson, plus many more.
It would have been easy to keep the imagery simple for this film, but the visual direction has some flair to it (like the split screen stuff), and there are legitimately a lot of locations that this story moves through which I appreciated.
The whole movie has many scenes that keep you entertained, and the final act in particular is quite an enjoyable set piece to conclude the story.
NEGATIVES
It’s a Whodunnit, and it doesn’t necessarily offer anything too fresh for the genre.
Not exactly the most exciting or most interesting whodunnit either.
Speaking of which. The big reveal didn’t really seem that… big. It could have been more twisty and surprising perhaps?
The extended supporting characters could use… more character.
There is that bit of self-awareness in this that might come off as an overplayed trope for some people.
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