I love how the end, when Ransome chose the prop knife connects back to Harlan saying that Ransome doesn’t know the difference between a prop and a real knife.

The whole donut hole in the donut hole conversation was gold

Who else LOVED THE ABSOLUTE POWER MOVE OF MARTA DRINKING THE COFFEE ON THE BALCONY AT THE END OF THE MOVIE!

"My house” "My rules” "My coffee!!”

Joni and her husband, Harlan’s son, weren’t divorced, he was dead.

Chris Evans FINALLY plays a bad guy. HERE FOR IT

What rich person names their child ransom? That seems like asking for trouble.

This is the most predictable yet unpredictable movie I’ve ever watched

Chris Evans looks like handsome jack in this movie

"Just doing something we don't expect doesn't inherently make it good." Game of Thrones fans understand this better than anyone lol.

I'm pretty sure that she choose to not help the family because at the end when she sips the "My house, My rules, My coffee" mug she is covering the rules and coffee ones with her fingers only showing "My house" so i think that was intentional and that she isn't going to let them live there.

I've heard they are considering having Craig's character have more adventures in future films, which I'm totally on board with.

“At some point, you can’t tell a stage prop, from a real knife.” *Ransom grabs knife off of the rack* So _THAT’S_ where it was going.

I had a feeling it was Ransom early on in the film. Dogs were the biggest giveaway. The dogs barked that night and Ransom was the only member of the family the dogs didn’t like. When the girl was trying to cover up her muddy footprints and the dogs ran up to her, they didn’t bark.

I literally cried when it was revealed that she did give him the right medicine and he died for nothing.😭😭😭😭

I love the play on when Marta stood on the Balcony with Harlen's Mug that said "My House, My Rules My Coffee" after they expect her to give up the house

When he kept bringing up the donut hole it literally killed me😂 Daniel Craig was awesome in this movie

Coworker: did you watch Knives Out? Me having watched foundflix: Yeeeeeeesss?

The amazing thing about this movie is it did story telling without words a lot. The cup that was Harlan’s and then Marta’s. The prop knife. The missing Molotov jar, the characters sitting in front of the knife ring at select angles. The dogs and their reaction to each character, the blank letter. They were all telling stories without words. And that’s my favourite thing about movies. Man I want to be half as good of a director as this guy one day. And to work with this talented cast? I’m swooning. Every point was really good with only a handful of slow spots that are honestly needed to allow the viewer to catch up on what’s happened. You can figure out the real killer pretty quickly, at least I did just from his proper intro, but it’s not until the ending that all the pieces come together. I’m a huge sucker for the detective telling a whole story and revealing the killer too.

So umm... wondering how the conversation with the doctor played out.. “Our deepest condolences, but there was nothing we could do and Fran passed away in her sleep ” *“THAT’S GREAT NEWS DOCTOR!”*

3:43 “Geez Bill, what happened to you? Pennywise f***** you up good.”

I honestly thought that at the end it was gonna be Marta and she was screwing with us the whole time.

Anyone here were just waiting for the moment when Benoit gets into Marta's car and take a drink from the "vomit mug"?

Chris Evans in a cable knit sweater. That’s it.

One of the things I think was so interesting was that the trailers definitely seemed to be pointing towards a basic murder mystery, but then then you got to watch the death around the 30 minute mark and your just like... “Wait what?”

“quite rich” he didnt realise 100k was missing in his bank 4 years in a row and they mentioned 60m at the will

I got the feeling that by letting everyone leave while standing over them at the end, that she had decided not to help them in anyway. At least that’s what I took from it.

My favourite bit of visual storytelling in this movie is Ransom's white cable-knit sweater. Made of wool. Dude's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Knives Out is very straightforward but the amount of tiny details dispersed throughout makes it worth coming back to it again and again. Genius shit.

*is still not used to seeing Chris Evans without his captain america outfit On*

The husband of Toni Collette is Dead, not just separated

You obviously missed the fact that Joni's husband died.

Honestly, I love the fact that most of the film wasn't a mystery, instead drawing tension from what you don't know, drawing it from what you DO know.

"A walking incarnation of the ok boomer meme" lmao

This was literally the plot of my 8th grade dinner theater except for the murder part. The rich guy turned out to be alive and in a cheesy ending left his entire will to the school

I think a large part of the plot/social commentary that wasn't mentioned in this video is that Marta's mother is undocumented. This is the reason Harlan refuses to allow her to call the ambulance, as even if was an accidental death she would still be looked into (tho the family would more likely go after her with lawyers as purposeful, especially when the will would be read). And this is ultimately what the family tries to hold over her head to regain their money. So it's not only out of love that Harlan does this for Marta, but for her and her family's safety.

This movie’s twists had twists

I’ve seen close to none of the movies found flix explains, I love his storytelling. I always get so excited when a new video is posted!

Exactly 1 hour ago i just watched this movie.

So is Martha from Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay or is she Brazilian?

It's funny how the knives' circle could stand for the bagel symbol : each one of the suspects are in the center of it

Thanksgiving dinner: My family: *Knives Out*

I thought it was going to be a whole game by the father and he was going to be alive but atlast I was wrong

The real mystery about this movie is that we still don't know where Marta is from.

The part where Ransom failed to stab Marta was an excellent call back to Harmon's comment of Ransom not knowing a proper knife to a real one.

Not all the family members are conservatives. Some are very liberal as well. There’s a scene where the family is even arguing politics

So.... We're not gonna talk about Linda finding that letter her father left? Okay.

In the beginning I thought Harlan staged everything the way he perfectly knew what to do and he literally said the antidote medicine wouldnt be in there how the heck did he know that? Did he suspect ransom did this did he know? He automatically was so calm and said she needs to think about her mom cuz he had in the will only she didn't know obviously but he knew of the Slayer rule and hence killed himself anyone notice this?

Just came out of the movie theater and I recommend this for ANY fan of mystery, murder or drama.

I thought this movie was Clue 2 knives out Boogaloo.

after watching gone girl and the girl on the train i've been having a hard time trusting a main character lol i actually suspected marta to be an unreliable narrator. thought she was the killer and the things we've seen in her flashbacks are all a lie

I know it wasn't a huge plot point, but I am sad you didnt mention the outcome of Jamie Lee Curtis's storyline. I meant first of all she was certainly the least awful in the family, she truly loved her father not just for his money, because she made her own. She was the most independent out of everyone and she truly didn't need his money to survive, I think she just wanted the house, her childhood home. I think she came to terms with everything by the end, especially after finding the note her father left her about her husband cheating on her. The note her husband thought was blank, not knowing of the little game she and her dad played.

I love how all the characters are exaggerated like in the board game.

I expected Marta to turn around at some point reveling the whole plan to frame Ransom, etc to collect everything!

It bothers me that no reviewer I've seen talking about this movie has given Don Johnson any love. It's almost like Miami Vice wasn't the biggest thing to ever air on television at one point.

This was such a good film

It's the bit after when he realized it was a fake knife & says "Shit!" that had me laughing. Mainly because at the back of my mind all I could hear was Captain America saying "LANGUAGE!" 😂

Have I heard of this movie? No. Do I want to watch this movie? No. Am I still going to watch this? Yes

I’m a simple man. I see FoundFlix upload a video. I like it even before I watch it.

This movie was just so good and intresting; I always love a good old who dunnit but the twists and concepts of this movie made it so unique and entertaining to watch!

I love the fact that Benoit knew she had something to do with the murder from the beginning (he saw that she had Harlan’s blood on her shoes when they first met) and kept her around because she was the one person he trusted. Like he said to her, “You have a kind heart”. Also, Benoit suspecting Ransom from the beginning because “the dogs are the best judge of character”. They barked at Ransom despite knowing him, but never at anyone else, including the cops. The movie had enough details to get an idea of suspicion, but not enough for you to figure it out until the end. I hope they make a series. One of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen

“A walking incarnation of the ‘okay boomer’ meme” 😂😂😂

Chris Evans was actually super good in this movie!!! I was worried I’d be distracted bc he’s such a famous actor but he fit into the role very well and really became the character. Same goes for every actor and actress in the movie, I was sooo into it and honestly forgot just how many famous people were in it

The blood on Martha's shoe made zero sense, she was 10-15 feet away from Harlan when he slit his own throat.

sooo what exactly have you been smoking ...to state this movie has two standout performances and completely overlook Ana de Armas.. who is in almost every scene and does most of the heavy lifting in this movie....

My man FoundFlix saving me in the hour of need with another video. What a guy!

Im a little hesitant to comment with this bc I usually dont find myself in this position, but I just got out of Knives Out last night and I?? took away v different things vis a vis the socioeconomic and political aspects of the movie. The whole scene with them talking politics was added in to show that theyre not all Conservatives. Rian was pretty clear in adding the different political views into the film to either throw people off and pick a side early subconsciously but also establish that these are people whom those politics will never effect. The way I took it, Rian is less talking about the actual politics, but the fact that this family, regardless of political views, are all extremely priviledged and thats ultimately what theyre going to protect. Thats why the ones who were nicest to Marta were the ones shown really twisting in that blade when the will thing happened. The same thing with Ransom, Rian wanted us to trust that Ransom wouldnt have a motive in it because hes saying the things the general audience is saying. "Fuck this Family". Ultimately his betrayal is the most poignant example of this because we dont know his political views, hed always been out to protect his own, and thats why Marta, a poor nurse from an undocumented family is a foil to them. They have everything and flaunt it and dont want to lose that control over what they think is. theirs. And hey listen, its still a valid point that "rich people suck" is not a new take, but I think ignoring the fact that Rian is gaming the largest majority of people who are gonna see his stuff, aka us white people shouldnt be just boiled down to conservatives vs everyone else. i personally found the whole movie compelling and the while the twist itself maybe wasnt the REVELATION OF THE CENTURY i was still interested in how everything was going to tie together. ive watched and read so many murder mysteries, this felt new and made me feel like I was experiencing the genre again for the first time. Admittedly, I havent watched the entirety of this video, mostly because of the fact that I enjoyed it quite a bit and Ive learned, ironically since TLJ lmao, to generally not engage too much of myself into Film Discourse. But I digress, i like your channel a lot and hope that this comment is at least semiproductive.

Here are my favorite things from the movie: The running gag of Harlan's mother not knowing or being aware of what's going on. The coffee mug: MY HOUSE, MY RULES, MY COFFEE. Blanc's donut theory.

Honestly casting chris evans a man who has been playing the moral paragon for years as the villain is such a good move, it really works so well to cast him against type

You: *wears paranorman shirt* Me: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Joanie’s husband DIED. You’re misleading by saying they aren’t together they aren’t divorced or separated

I knew Chris Evans was the villain. A cute guy with muscles and blonde hair and blue eyes and is known as a hero can't be trusted.. PS not all blonde hair blue eyed people are evil.

I thought this was a thrilling, twisting tale that kept me guessing. Daniel Craig’s Southern accent bothered me a bit though, it didn’t feel very authentic.

What breaks movies like these is, is that the "twist" is given to the most predictable actors. I mean, the biggest actors there are Daniel Craig and Chris Evans. You already know there's a twist since it's a murder mystery movie... so you kind of expect the twist to involve either Daniel or Chris. It's also the reason why movies with unlimited and VERY LIMITED budgets are amazing (yes, no in-between), it's because you don't really know who gets to stay or who goes. I mean, imagine a movie with Samuel Jackson and a bunch of small actors, you already fucking know who dies last. However, if everyone is a small actor, you really don't know the order of who dies, or who's the traitor etc. Same thing goes with movies with unlimited budgets, they can afford to have a "cameo" of some sort, where famous actor shows up once, and instantly gets deleted.

I completely disagree. The subversion and twist is what set this movie apart from other mysteries. Otherwise it would've been a carbon copy of Clue.

If Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t in a thriller or horror movie, it’s not a thriller/horror movie.

this is my new favorite movie, i love the genre, the cast, the script, the cinematography, the sound design, the call backs, the literally everything i love it all so much

Watched this movie this afternoon though it was kinda long I definitely enjoyed it especially CSI KFC

"twist explained" Which one?

I think I maybe am just looking too "under the skin" but some of the visual ques and ending make me think it was all dominoes set up by Marta. Like when she played that game with Harlan she was always one step ahead of him, and it shows how she's better than Ransom too, almost two steps ahead of him. She wins out in the end the money and company, the fame. She's the only character that couldn't lie, which I guess could be a subversion. And at the scene were she cries on the stairs she sobs momentarily before more or less stopping, and she has a cold calculating look on her face. Then at the end scene, the knives on the wire wheel form a donut, but it's not Ransom that's at its centre. It's Marta.... 🤔 Also she was the only sole person who knew everyone's secrets, all the angles. And I may be wrong but when Benoit talked about the rainbow mumbo jumbo and how it was a book, she replied "I haven't read that one". So she's a frequent reader? Maybe a frequent reader of murder mysteries? Maybe Benoit's reliance on a dog's sense of character is misplaced. Give a dog a bone and it'll love you no matter how black your heart is... Just a theory 🤔

The camera, cast, plot, twist, literally EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT. 100/10

Mistake- Jody, GOOP like owner is a widow, her husband was Harlan’s son.

I love the Paranorman t-shirt !

Hmmm... What about all of the talk about Marta being the only person who can beat Harlan at Go? Unlike Ransom? What about her holding the "My House" cup at the end. I got the impression she had much more to do with what happened than we're left to believe.

If I’m not mistaken, because the family was purposefully left out they can contest the will in court as them having been forgotten. A method that is a lot more spiteful is to give each of them $1. Showing that they were not forgotten at all.

Will you finally give in and do a Clue review?

Interesting...a review breakdown on this channel of a non-horror movie. This I’d like to see more of!

This is probably the first movie I have seen before watching a ending explained on it

Alright here’s my theory. Marta was actually the mastermind behind all of the acts in this movie, she is the only one that really interacts with Harlan. In the flashbacks we see that she would be the one that influences Harlan’s decisions towards family members. She has already been displayed to be much smarter than believed, by beating the grandpa in GO every time so she clearly has strong thinking skills. She also mentions in the beginning that she wins because she isn’t playing to beat him but to build a beautiful pattern, to play things in her own way which is turning the game around and to have them in her own terms. The other person who could beat harlan was ransom however it was stated that Marta has won more times than ransom has which indicates Marta is smarter. Marta knew the differences between the vials and applies the correct medication because she didn’t want any traces back to her for the murder so she convinces Harlan to kill himself so she has no association with his death other than being witness to it. The reason the grandma refers to Marta as Ransom is because they both were playing the game to kill Harlan. Marta planned for ransom to legit give cause for EVERY family member to kill him but nothing points to her. At the end she looks at ransom as he is put away and they both glare at eachother because he knows that he lost her game. She stands at the top holding the mug to symbolise that she is above all, she was the true central point of the “doughnut hole” and that she now owns it all. So in short she masterminded the plan to trick Harlan into pissing off the whole family and give them cause to kill him, then put her in his will and have ransom the only other person shown to have a high IQ to take the bait and commit the murder. At the very beginning it’s when the show is being watched by the sister, she claims that she’s so close to seeing the end and is reluctant to stop watching however ends up stopping watching the show claiming she already knows who the killer is. So she claims to know who the killer is but doesn’t know how it will end, similar to the spot with Marta. The detective claims to know who the killer was with his big speech and such however MAYBE he wasn’t entirely correct. Notice how this show really lives to emphasise 2. 2 mins left of the show, 2 dogs, 2 main suspects (Marta ransom), 2 cops, 2 doughnut holes. The detective was so eager to end the investigation that he simply missed the 2 and in this case was the other “killer”.

Saw it opening night. I loved it! Funny & mysterious!

No mention of actual goddess Ana De Armas when talking about the cast *cries*

when ransom leaped on top of Marta to try to kill her was kinda..weirdly hot to be completely honest

*Here is the story telling why Martha is real killer..!* First off, this was an extremely well researched movie, with oodles of reference to the genre. This genre is ALL about the little details. Every bit of dialog is intentional, every bit of scenery is intentional. I can't believe the details that conflict with the apparent resolution of Ransom as the bad guy are sloppy overlooks... they are in fact explicitly reinforced in several scenes throughout the movie. I've been rewatching and dissecting scene by scene this morning and comparing screenshots of each version of events. Marta is absolutely the villain, a criminal mastermind and master manipulator. Ransom's reaction at the end of the movie is purely his realization of what she actually is and what she has done... and that he was completely played by her. He is being facetious in admitting to the housekeeper and arson in a rage... it was ALL Marta. This is maybe the most brilliant meta twist in a whodunnit movie ever. All the clues are there if you look. There are many subtle supports for this interpretation of the movie's "true" narrative as others have pointed out... Marta spending half the movie ruining and controlling discovery of evidence for Blanc, Blanc's and Marta's dialog, the metaphor of Go and who was best at staying several moves ahead, etc. But to me the crowning giveaway bit of evidence is the difference between Joni coming upstairs to check on Harlan and Marta's constructed story. As others have also pointed out, Marta absolutely lies to Harlan in her version of events about having a glass of champagne as an excuse to not play Go. She says this to him 2 times. Yet in no version of anyone else's story is she seen drinking anything other than water. There is a pointed scene with the housekeeper where she explicitly refuses to drink. Both of these are Marta's "memory" so she lied to Harlan and did NOT puke... suggesting she can choose when to do so. (In fact I don't think she ever has an alcoholic drink at any point in the movie, but not sure.) But how about visual proof? Joni's version of events: Joni comes up, pointedly looks down at the Go board spilled on the ground, there is nothing else on the floor. 00-29-36 - Joni memory - Go board, NO medical bag or meds in sight Also she sees Marta preparing medicine in the background. 00-29-28 - Joni Memory - Marta actively preparing medicine, Go board had already knocked over Contrast this with Marta's version of events, which she guided Blanc to "discover" (and which the movie implies she conjured up during the flip of Blanc's coin... much like a fully developed plot would "pop" into Harlan's head... "that was the easy part"). 00-37-44 - Marta memory - dumps all contents of the bag on the floor where the Go board is 00-38-51 - Marta memory - all contents of the bag on the floor where the Go board is, AFTER kathunk (trip) Here are the problems: According to Marta, she had already injected Harlan, dumped the contents of the bag all over where the Go board was. This is clearly shown and reinforced after Harlan supposedly trips her. At no point do either of them clean up this mess. According to Marta, she was standing motionless in the background as Joni came to the door. Joni saw only the Go board on the ground... no bag, no gloves, no bottles, nothing spilled besides the game pieces. Moreover, Joni saw Marta preparing the medicine on the desk in the background. This would suggest Marta hadn't injected Harlan yet and would not yet have discovered the presumable mixup of meds! The timelines and scenes don't match in a MAJOR way! Joni has no reason to lie about this at the time she informed the detectives of what she saw, and it's a very simple and quick scene. Marta has every reason to. I submit to the reader that if you watch the movie carefully, Marta's "memories" are framed much more as constructs than actual memories, in comparison to all the other characters. I also note that in Rian Johnson interviews, he is careful to never acknowledge who the actual killer is, and he talks a lot about exploring how biases distort and lead us to narratives. I submit also that the "woke" interpretation of this movie as just a parable on immigration and class culture in America is actually the highest level bias that is preventing everyone from seeing Marta is the actual culprit of the murder mystery. Granted, the Thrombeys are all entitled assholes, but she harnesses that bias to get away with the actual crime. Nothing sums this up better than the closing scene where they all realize the truth, looking up at her, drinking from Harlan's cup.

I think that at the end of the film Marta doesn’t help the rest of the family as she holds up a mug that says “my house my rules”. Could just be a visual cue that she doesn’t without actually saying it

Thanks for getting this video out so quickly, the cast alone was enough to get me excited for this. It’s a shame it’s caught the “subversion of expectations for subversion’s sake” bug from GoT.

went to the theaters to see this and i loved it

If the grandfather is an expert on murders (being a successful murder myster author and all), he would have known about toxicology tests which means his suicide to save her would have been for nothing. *From his point of view, not knowing about Ransom's plan or that the girl knew the weight differences. He simply thought he was "piosoned" unintentionally. Unless suicide after murder attempt is not unlawful?

Me: I should go to sleep I have class at 8. FoundFlix: N O

"Chris Evans the most good boy ever." *Remembers banana* O///O

Pay attention to the first moment Mont'Blanc speaks to Marta on the patio before they sat down, he glances down for a moment and that was the moment where he noticed the blood on her shoe.

I also have a HUGE problem with a detective who has just stopped and arrested a murder suspect from fleeing the scene of a crime related to said murder, allowing one of those suspects to 1) drive the very same vehicle she drove the other suspect in 2) “make a stop” on the way to the police station and 3) LEAVE HIS SIGHT WHILE HE LISTENS TO MUSIC WITH HEADPHONES! Unless he is in on the scam or something, this behavior is utterly irresponsible and inexcusable for a professional. If she WAS guilty-which at this point she at least believed she was and the real toxicology report WAS at the meeting with Fran, she would have been able to destroy it and return to the car without even a HINT of suspicion from the detective. He would have aided the murder due to pure neglect and naivety! It’s a ridiculous scene! I would rather have had her come up with some clever way to evade one of his partners than have had the LEAD DETECTIVE behave so sloppily. OR if you’re going to agree to stop, FOLLOW YOUR MURDER SUSPECT! Just lazy writing.