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 My expectations were too high for me to enjoy this movie as much as I wanted to. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad. It's not anywhere NEAR as good as Knives Out. If I had seen this movie all by itself, without having seen Knives Out, I would have enjoyed it quite a bit. But it was a big let down. 

Everyone plays their parts well, especially Daniel Craig and Ed Norton. The only slight miscast I think was Kate Hudson, who is still trying to play a hot young thing and is no longer a hot young thing. Everyone else was fine in their roles. The writing was not as snappy as in the first film. The characters all seemed to be trying to be as BIG and FLASHY and annoying as possible. You find out later in the movie why, but it's still annoying. I really didn't like the first 20 or 30 minutes of the movie at all because everyone was TOO MUCH.

The middle of the movie is good, where we start finding out WHY these people are acting like this. Especially Janelle Monae, who seems to be REALLY angry and sullen for the first half of the movie. But you find out why. The exposition in the middle of the movie won me back over and I was enjoying it. 

Then the end came. The end is a mixed bag. There were parts that I liked and parts I hated. There was a lot that didn't make much sense (like a bunch of breaking glass for no apparent reason). One of the characters turns out to be very different than we thought at first, and that change, for me, was quite a let down. It was hard to imagine THIS actor playing a character like THAT.

Yes, I'm being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers. If you read this review before you see it, come back and read it again after you see it and let me know what you think.

I DO recommend seeing it. It's definitely NOT something you need to see in the theater. Rent it or stream it. It's rated PG13 for language and violence. 

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