Wake up dead man: A knives out mystery

 Sometimes, a good who dunnit movie is ideal for a lousy evening of television.

 

And so Noshi and me sat down to watch Wake up dead man on Netflix, the latest instalment in their A Knives Out Mystery series.

 

Starring Daniel Craig and Josh Brolin, this one is about an eccentric priest that rules, and blackmails, people in his parish.  A young priest, former boxer, is send to the parish to help out and observe what is actually happening there, and he immediatly gets an idea because the cross is removed from the wall.  It seems the father's mom was a whore, and he interprets faith "slighty" different.

 

Now, it is actually quite a fun way how it builds to the setting of the murder with all the flawed parishians, like a writer down on his luck, a depressed alcoholic daughter, a bastard son for the priest and more.  This all gives them motive (of course, at first the young priest is the suspect), and the flamboyant Daniel Craig out there to solve the mystery.  

 

But as the story progresses and more mysteries unravel in the small village, it soon becomes apparant that not only it was all a set-up that was manipulated into a true murder, but that it was the maid behind it all.  Because of course, it's always the house staff is it not.  She was a witness to what transpired all those years ago, and as she saw the priest stray from true faith took it all in her own hands.  Especially because a fortune is also on the line, an inheritance of the priest's father and something everyone seemed to be looking out for...

 

So while the actual murderer might be a bit predictable (great performance by Glenn Close), the story is actually really enjoyable to follow, and you might get sidetracked once or twice during the chase and the reasons behind it.

 

So that makes it for me an enjoyable murder mystery film!