The Reel Rejects - Knives Out 3 WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:27 Thank you to Shopify for sponsoring this video. video more on them in just a bit all right you guys ready to do this yeah boya all right ladies and gentlemen we just watched wake up dead man knives out three and just solved the

Starting point is 00:00:49 entire thing in great detail kind of crazy how we predicted every moment from beginning to end it was so annoying it was like dude you're spoiling the mystery for us all but here we are guys here we are joseph gordon levitt was the baseball announcer oh yeah they're buds right that makes sense they've done work together a couple movies should have solved that well i'll go to you first andrew hey how what compared do you would you know right off the

Starting point is 00:01:19 batter would you need time to think about where would you replace this amongst the three yeah i would have to think about that i think they all do something very different i would say this one is definitely darker than the other one, a little bit more bleaker, although they have a bit of a darkness in them just because of the murder whodunit films, right? But I think this one, you know, it really deals with some fascinating things that encompass the real world when you talk about religion and how you process that. I think the character that, besides Benoit Blanc, he's always my favorite. I love how magnetic dance. Daniel Craig is, and I just think in the eccentricness that he brings to the role, he's,

Starting point is 00:02:06 and whenever he does his thing where he solves it at the end, where he makes most of us, or at least myself, feel extra dumb because of how brilliant he is, I think it's always so fascinating and so much fun to see. But I think the standout for me was Father Judd. I loved seeing just how believing in something so much and finding it to be so pure and also what he has gone through really seeing his vulnerability throughout the film was just an incredible watch he's such i don't know if i've seen josh o'connor and anything else uh not at top of mind but just uh to watch his performance uh he's really also magnetic i would i would say too but he's really the heart of the film for me as well as we need to you know um repent and we need to make sure that he's uh his innocence is

Starting point is 00:02:54 is comes to the forefront so um but i think his interactions with daniel craig they had such incredible chemistry i loved watching them work aside uh besides each other they really worked uh incredible together and i always think banwa has such a soft spot for when he comes in right away he always knows how to size people up and to see you right away that uh right when he spoke he's like he knows that he's an innocent man like nobody who does a crime uh of this nature is going to be feeling this way. So that's why I'm so in love with Benoit Blanc. He's such an intelligence, such a resourceful character. But then when it comes to Father Judd, I've just found it so fascinating that so many different times because, again, he believes

Starting point is 00:03:39 so much in faith and how it's restored, you know, what taking another life in the past when it came to his boxing and all that. And there were so many times when he was tempted by darkness when it comes to Josh Brolin's character and then all these people literally blaming him for something he did not do and he could have been tempted to go that route of like getting on them, getting angry at them and no, he let his faith guide him

Starting point is 00:04:05 and in Jesus and all that. And I thought that was very admirable and I really appreciated his character. So I think Greg pointed out best it was literally Old Testament versus New Testament. So there was a lot of fascinating things I think this film did. All right. That's cool.

Starting point is 00:04:21 Tara, what about yourself? Do you know where you might put this already? I think I would put three before two. In two, I think I called out like two, a couple of things. It's still not a bunch. This one was wackadoo freaking wild. Couldn't call anything except for the diamond thing at the end. Like, honestly, I really, I love the writing because you honestly have to upgrade yourself from one to two.

Starting point is 00:04:46 And how are we going to somewhat outdo ourselves on three or still make it like a, A definite mystery where nobody sees it coming, which I really loved, and this is what that was. So, you know, Ryan Johnson, he did it again. Is there a character here that stood out to you, Alon? I know Andrew pointed out Father Judd, but is there someone else beyond that who you felt like was a true highlight for you? I think I'm mainly just in love with What's his Nuts from Fleabag. Andrew Scott. Is that his name?

Starting point is 00:05:19 Andrew Scott. I just, I love it. Science fiction writer? Yeah. Yeah, he's just great. I mean, Glenn Close is Glenn close. I mean, she appears on screen. You're like, okay, I am not surprised that at the end, she's given the bulk of an emotional monologue because that bitch can deliver when you need her to.

Starting point is 00:05:41 So I would say, Glenn, for me, I really loved, I loved her performance in this. And I like that they hid the really big performance first. her till the very very end yeah did you grow up with religion i did what religion lutheran i went to a lutheran private school middle school to high school i don't really know what their church practices are like it's like christianity but there's like different like christian if i if i go to like a christian church they have rock music and shit and yeah yeah it's the same it's like the same yeah kind of like non-denominational a little bit okay yeah interesting so i didn't do seven hell marys but i know about that juice all right yeah jesus juice yeah and

Starting point is 00:06:27 juan humphrey hey what character stood out to you golly um i mean i thought this is terrific ensemble um i guess josh brolin really embodies this guy in a very powerful way like i really love the duality of the performances between Josh O'Connor and Josh Brolin because having grown up in at least Catholic tradition for a fair amount of life and having seen

Starting point is 00:06:57 older school priests versus newer school priests, I thought they both Josh Brolin is obviously the more heightened and is on his own, you know, ego trip. But just the fire with which he was spitting out these sermons was just really tangible

Starting point is 00:07:14 and palpable. And like the way all these guys were approaching the portrayal of priests which like you know is kind of an odd thing because i feel like you know there comes this expectation of like loftiness and piety but a lot of priests can be very sort of normal presenting people you know like it be very casual i guess i should say um so yeah i really like the contrast between judd and the compassion that josh o'connor brought to that um and then you know wicks is just yeah fire brimstone mania i thought was just a beautiful contrast and wicks even after he's dead feels very present you know so it's a it's a great josh brolin performance as what if jack black was jesus do you know where you might uh place this

Starting point is 00:07:59 one amongst the three or do you need more time i think for me i'm gonna wait to solidify this i think this might be my favorite one i think i would go three one two because one thing this doesn't have as much that the other two for me kind of had is like this one didn't seem quite as impressed with itself and the previous two have this quality where I feel like the movie itself is kind of impressed with itself. And I really like the other two Knives Out movies. I don't necessarily maybe love them to the degree that some folks do. And this one, I just really love the tone and the setting and the use of the tropes, especially, I guess I would say. Yeah. But however you feeling, who stood out to you? I mean, all the heavy hitters were kind of listed

Starting point is 00:08:44 there amongst everyone. Talk about Thomas Hayden Church. Watching the Cubs games. I was happy to see him. Great to have him back. Yeah, I think the whole cast is great. It's interesting that for this one, because I would actually put this

Starting point is 00:08:58 most likely as my favorite one. And I found Daniel Craig to be the most supporting role out of the three. Yeah. You know, it's like usually he is, like there's someone else who is the main character essentially and then

Starting point is 00:09:13 Bono and Blanc coming. in and then he overtakes the screen and becomes the lead as the movie goes on more, more and more. But this one, he just remained the supporting character. I never felt like this actually became just his movie and he took over the narrative. And a big part of that does come down to the fact that he sacrifices his big reveal monologue and allows it to be a confession. It made me question how much Ryan Johnson actually is Catholic because I grew up very, very Catholic. I was a very big believer. I went to church every Sunday, not out of my own volition, but it was kind of forced to. But then even beyond that, I did become a very devoted Catholic for a very long time. And I've found myself in another cult of life. And I've been actually really fascinated with the subject of what American dogma is like when you look at American politics. I can't speak to any other politics around the world. I imagine it's all kind of a thing. Cult has been a big part of our humanity. forever and watching the illustration and the connections that it draws between when you have

Starting point is 00:10:21 a figurehead who weaponizes Christianity. Some of you guys will pick up on what I'm linking this to. You probably just listen to nothing, you'll figure it out. But a figurehead who weaponizes people who are Christians and then does it to propel themselves up to become the thing that is actually worshipped. that way you take advantage of to the point where they can make no mistakes no matter what they do

Starting point is 00:10:46 and like that room that Josh Burland's in when they're having their secret meeting and the truth comes out everyone knows kind of like this guy's like already spouting his own way he's defying everything it means to be a priest and you know when you look at

Starting point is 00:11:03 certain leadership out here like this is totally antithetical to what we described as so you can see the parallels and you look at especially with the last movie where it is a riff on like social media world and billionaires and shit obviously ryan johnson has political beliefs that come out through the writing of these films and i see it here very much so with the dogma of politics and how he there's a line here that directly call the sun says like you could run for president one day you're like yeah okay he's

Starting point is 00:11:32 being a little on the nose about what he's drawing the line to but it's true and and i see that here with that one scene where he's literally like going to just toss them all to the wolves after that. He's going to burn them all. No matter how devout they are to him, he's willing to burn them all for his own benefit.

Starting point is 00:11:51 Even though they know he's fucked up, even though they know he's done a lot of wrong things. They're like, no, we still follow you no matter what. And so I love seeing that theme be placed here because it's coming up at a very relevant time and at a time where I've taken just a big fascination with this.

Starting point is 00:12:07 subject so thematically on a personal level of what i've grown up with of what my interests are and i would agree with you john especially on the the part where it doesn't feel as tongue and cheek even though there are some very on the nose lines it doesn't feel as winky uh with the way they with the way the mystery goes down because it he seemed to imbue himself with that weird darkness that catholicism does bring that that shadow of guilt that it does bring like i i love that glen close is just pushed to give the confession out of the weight of guilt

Starting point is 00:12:44 you know and that's what everyone that's what our main character is dealing with at the very top is how much guilt can motivate this guy and then Glenn Close she's just pushed by guilt herself

Starting point is 00:12:56 there was no one who had to call her out on it she just fucking went for it well the villains have almost no guilt at all or shame or anything yeah this weirdly felt very human and as much as there's a commentary on cult, religion, and the way people's belief systems of fanaticism can cause blinders, it also felt very human in the way everyone was orchestrated,

Starting point is 00:13:21 whereas I haven't seen Glass Onion a very long time, but I remember Glass Onion feeling a little bit, like, quirky in the way they're depicted. A little more heightened characterization. Yeah. Lighter tone. This one had the most naturalistic approach to just like the high, height of the character performances like everyone's distinct but they dialed slightly down on like the rhythms and the saturation of mannerism so like stuff was more thrown away in a naturalistic

Starting point is 00:13:51 way here in a good way here i think yeah definitely andrew would you say amongst a three even though you're figuring out with the movies would you know which benoit blanc performance uh might be your favorite of the three friend of the channel i got to to tell you something before we ever started this youtube channel john and i actually first tried doing t-shirt designs let me tell you it did not go well we did not know how to sell a darn thing so we can that and eventually youtube became a thing but in our heart of hearts we always found our way back to merch the difference is time shopify that allowed us to actually fulfill the dream we first started on before this channel ever existed we've been using shopify for a couple of years now

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Starting point is 00:15:49 I think this one, you know, because how he views religion, I mean, especially being a gay man, we know he's with Hugh Grant's character from the second movie. So I think that's a fascinating position to put him in in this film. And he doesn't let that get in the way of still solving the crime and knowing that this man does not judge him and he still appreciates him i think that puts his character again in a very fascinating position to solve the crime but he doesn't again allow that to get in the way he's still going to be ben-want-blanc so i think that gave it the

Starting point is 00:16:20 the most weight i think of the three but still whenever there's someone he always has to solve the crime but i i would say probably this one because it felt like it wasn't the ben-want-blanc show like there was an interesting thing that John said to me when we were watching this before he came back into the full we saw him in the first 20 seconds and then John's like

Starting point is 00:16:40 I could stay watching this whole film on just hearing all the symbolism and all these things that we're getting on religion and without Benoit Blanc as much as we want to see him but in terms of Benoit Blanc performance probably this one just because

Starting point is 00:16:54 we had him in a situation just where he was kind of at odds just with the atmospheric place and just the generality of where they were. So I would say probably this one. Yeah. Good and good description.

Starting point is 00:17:07 Tara, would you know? I would definitely say the first one. Here's the reason why. There's a newness. There's an excitement. We now know the Ryan Johnson, the knives out, the vibe of it. What's going on here? The first one, and when he starts to put all of the puzzle pieces together and explain it to you,

Starting point is 00:17:28 you're like, oh, my God, oh, my God. And then you're like, oh, maybe I called it. And they're like, oh, my God, it keeps going. In this one, they cut them off, but they do it in a really, in a well-written way to have Glenn Close finish that part of that story. But we all know that when Benoit Blanc gets going, you're like, hell to the freak, yeah, this is the touchdown moment, right? This is the moment we're waiting for where he just like lays it all out.

Starting point is 00:17:52 And you're like, oh, God, I'm so dumb. Which you kind of like those moments in the little things that you maybe couldn't catch. and then he explains it all it's just there's an excitement there it's like you're these movies are like you're playing a game and you think you got most of the puzzle pieces together and you're always like i didn't really know what the hell i was i was thinking at the time but um i i would still go with the newness the the excitement of the first one because it's it was just we didn't know what we were in for yet and now i would still watch a million of these movies over and over because they're written so well But that excitement, the first one, is going to be one that, you know, for me, hold close to my heart. For sure. That's a great point you make, too, and that's what I love about these movies, even if you feel like you know you have predicted something and you're slightly correct, there's still a lot more twists that are going to be coming. So, like, I said that Josh Brolin framed himself. Yeah, there was a frame there, but it wasn't Josh Brolin, it was Glenn Close's character.

Starting point is 00:18:55 So there's always like a few other more twists that are always going to come out. I always appreciate that in these movies. John, would you have an answer? I think, yeah, I would agree with Tara. It's like the first movie because so much of that is delivering you this character, and he is like the centerpiece of that movie, and he is like an immaculate performance in that movie, and it is, yeah, the fresh... It's like this one I think would be my favorite of the Knives Out movies.

Starting point is 00:19:21 I think I would call out him in the first one as my favorite Benoit Blanc performance, but I also like that in the continuation of a series like this, you can use that. character slightly differently every time so yeah you know i don't be it's not like a knock against this movie or anything that he is more of a supporting character i think that's cool but if i want to just like languish in the joy of benoit blanc i probably put on the first one i would like it to get a little more personal with him uh i thought this movie was actually tempting that line but they it seemed to kind of pull back that there's one little criticism and actually throw at this movie is that it seemed like they were going to some do something with

Starting point is 00:19:59 him that maybe deals with aging or belief in some capacity or sense of spirituality. You know, like there's a whole moment where the light does shine on him when he's like cutting himself off mid-speech and it like looked like a moment of enlightenment. I just wish that they did something a little bit more like the second one introduces that he has a lover. And it's like kind of funny that it's Hugh Grant, but hey, he's in a relationship. And he's depressed not having anything to do and he's in the tub with his friends. Yeah. And there's like something there. And then they don't really much here for him to like push it forward when i thought like everything about the way he's coming across and that there's like a weight and an aging to what's happened with him that i thought

Starting point is 00:20:40 they would lean into so you know inevitably there'd probably be a next one right and i'd hope that for the next one we decided to go a little bit more personal with the guy but yeah i thought this movie was um shot differently than the other ones too like the lighting the cinematography Yeah, the framework of what they worked in. I love the change of the weather within. Oh, that was so beautiful. It made me think of church back then. Or like people experienced that with indoor situations all the time.

Starting point is 00:21:08 Like, we're in a very closed-off room right now, so you don't get that effect of windows and watching the weather change. But in a church, you do have that happen a lot of the time where the weather will change, and it feels very New York, and it also feels very church-like with that. But he also used it to illustrate the symbolism of the moment of the way. these characters were going through i was going to say yeah the parts of the country where like a cloud burst might just roll through for 10 minutes like it does root it's i'm not used to seeing weather acknowledged in that kind of pointed but subtle way and it does make it feel more of the setting

Starting point is 00:21:42 more of like a place like new york whereas here that happens differently yeah you know i thought it was kind of interesting how they like the the round of characters there the flock were more used as a thematic representation of being a devotee to the church. Whilst, you know, illustrating a couple of these characters like a Jeremy Renner, ultimately these people will come down to their own selfishness, but they're all seeking some sort of truth or escapism for healing via through God, right? But they weren't really used as suspects, you know, the way how the other ones were, the other ones were very much, like, you are suspects, but you only really focus on like a

Starting point is 00:22:18 couple of people. I mean, you could see slight motivations on if they, because we, did get to a point where like, wait, they all are part of this and did it. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Yeah. But, I mean, more so in the first movie and the second movie, where they gave a real true motivation

Starting point is 00:22:34 for each of them, but I still like the ensemble and I made that joke too. Like, you know, it's not really a who's done it. It's a who's in it. Yeah. That's part of the game of these movies. Yeah. And I will say, it was really fun not having seen a trailer

Starting point is 00:22:50 and not really having any of it. Who was going to show up? Like, I think that's fun. That's definitely part of the fun. That was awesome. I mean, they got to cast the rest of Hollywood in the next movie. And you could also do in the next movie to make it even more personal. Just throwing something out there.

Starting point is 00:23:04 Could even frame Ban Juan Blanc for a murder. And then I have to solve it that way because now you're really putting him in a very precarious position. Now we're really going out into left field, like in a spot where he's out of his depth. And what are we going to do in this situation? I don't know. Half this wait and see. but I'd be interested and that's doing something

Starting point is 00:23:25 completely different than the first three films when it comes to Benoit Blanc or give him a Moriarty. Yeah, yeah, someone who's like specifically going after him. Yeah, that's interesting that the suspects are not really

Starting point is 00:23:37 like out of a couple of them they're not really that like only a couple of them are really interesting people. You know, there's not really that much interesting. Like outside of a couple of their introductions most of them I don't really give a shit about checking with.

Starting point is 00:23:51 Like when they zoomed in on Carrie Washington being like, oh, and she's moving on, like moving her attorney's office. I was like, I don't know. I don't care. I was just like, okay. I'm like good for her. Yeah. Like, I guess, yeah. I guess having them there is like,

Starting point is 00:24:04 there is a good way to highlight how, you know, religion and having your group and people who know, like, sort of who you are in keeping secrets or keeping control how well those types of people stick together and they don't view it as a cult. They just

Starting point is 00:24:22 few it as fuck you this is how we do it which is dangerous yeah and the and the whole ritual of like we're supposed to come together

Starting point is 00:24:30 and bear our souls and be vulnerable but that also gives us all leverage against each other if ever the tideship and you know yeah you have this cast

Starting point is 00:24:39 of like well everyone's an A lister so you can't just assume that like oh this one guy they cast has to be more important you know so it's like yeah yeah this one felt the most like a book

Starting point is 00:24:47 to me out of those I was thinking that too yeah and certainly with the way that yeah with like a number of the supporting characters they're here but yeah you're not really getting intimate with a lot of them yeah well uh i still loved it i i consider my favorite one still out of the three while the other two will have their strengths that this one does not have uh i i personally would consider

Starting point is 00:25:08 this my favorite we've all got our rankings out there in our own way why we could all do this together as a gang and none of us truly solved it guys what did you think about this movie where would you rank this amongst the three knives out films who was your favorite character The top three for me. Amen to that, brother. All right, guys. We'll see you soon. Peace out, Reject Nation.

The Reel Rejects - Knives Out 3 WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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