By Adarsh Senthilnathan – Staff Reporter

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS

“Knives Out,” directed by Rian Johnson, is about a rich crime novelist named Harlan Thrombey, who is played by Christopher Plummer, and the dysfunctional Thrombey family. 

“Knives Out” has won the Satellite Award for Best Ensemble – Motion Picture and the Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Costume Design for a Contemporary Film. “Knives Out” has amassed a worldwide total of $309.2 million. 

The movie focuses mainly on Harlan Thrombey, Marta Cabrera, and private detective Benoit Blanc, but it also includes the entire Thrombey family. 

The movie starts off with Harlan Thrombey’s 85th birthday party at his mansion with his family. Then, the next morning the family’s housekeeper finds him dead, and the police suspect it was a suicide, but an anonymous party hires Benoit Blanc, a private detective, to investigate the death of Harlan Thrombey. 

After Thrombey’s birthday party, his nurse, Marta, accidentally gives him an overdose of morphine instead of his proper medication, and since she could not find the antidote, he only had a few minutes left of his life. 

During the last minutes of his life, Harlan instructed Marta to cover up the death by making a fictional alibi for her, and then Harlan dies suddenly. 

While private detective Benoit Blanc questions Marta, she gives incomplete answers to confuse Blanc, but she does not lie, and after this Blanc asks Marta to help with his investigation. While Marta helps Blanc with his investigation, she tries to hide evidence and lead him away from the clues. 

Eventually, Marta makes Ransom, one of Harlan’s grandsons, confess to the police and he is arrested for the murder of Harlan Thrombey. In the end, Marta gets to have the mansion all to herself because this was in Harlan’s will. 

One of the best parts of the movie was when private detective Benoit Blanc arrived at the Thrombey mansion and questioned everyone, this was funny because viewers saw various members of the family making jokes and making fun of each other. 

The director of the movie did a fantastic job of keeping the movie suspenseful. However, the movie could have included some more background into Harlan Thrombey. 

“Knives Out” can be compared to mystery movies such as, “Clue” and “Gone Girl,”

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars