Good ^_^ Funny and interesting and with a good plot. Of course you'd want to throttle the characters, by their throats, for being assholes, but that's a given. They were very well played though. I thought this movie wad very well made, from the first to the last character.
Sure, there's a few "come on!" when someone unexpectedly survives, but that's nothing new. Every Bond movie would end quite quickly if the villains would just kill him instead of playing stupid games with him. Some characters need to survive in these movies, and that's how it is. Still, even that here was not as annoying as in the Bond movies or such.
It starts with four characters stopping whatever they were doing when a box arrives, sent by famous Miles Bron, a famous man supposedly a genius.
It's a box full of riddles that they solve together: Claire, in the middle of a campaign to be elected for something (was it governor? or was ahe already one? don't remember...); Lionel, a young but brilliant scientist; Birdie, a silly and vain woman; and Duke, a chauvinist with a youtube channel with lots of views, apparently. He doesn't seem to bright, but his mother does. Maybe he took after his father...
They all receive an invitation to Miles personal island for the entire weekend, and they leave without question.
Two more people got the invitation: Andy and of course Benoit Blanc, so bored and verging on madness due to the pandemic that he accepted immediately, it seems...
Once on the boat, Blanc learns that Andy co-founded the company that made Miles rich, until he took everything away from her, cheating her out of everything.
When they arrive, Miles looks a bit taken aback by her presence, and also by Blanc's. He later asks him what's he doing there, since he did not send a box to him.
The story of how it all started and why they're all such "good friends" is recounted for Blanc's benefit: they all met when they were nobodies, so to speak, then Miles had a brilliant idea that he wrote on a napkin, nd he founded a company with Andy. Suddenly, not quite sure how, the other four started having success, and they attributed it all on Miles. Well, Birdie was a model at first, then she started selling clothes.
These people think that everything they have is because of Miles, so they suck up to him without shame.
A matter arises that causes the first trouble. Miles is fixated on something he firmly believes will be revolutionary , a new power source that everyone else is afraid of. Lionel is strongly opposed, it is too dangerous without doing all the necessary tests beforehand, and Miles reveals that everything on the island is powered by that thing.
It seems they're not as alright and good good friends as they pretended to be. Claire is worried for her future because she signed something in favour of Miles' project, Duke sees his partner Whiskie in bed with Miles, and Birdie is about to be framed for slavery labour... her assistant Peg tries to reason with her but there is one thing she didn't know. Fact is, Birdie's clothings were made in a 'sweat factory', and Miles wants her to sign something where she admits it's all her fault, which would not only end all prospects for Birdie, but for Peg too. Peg hopes to find a way out of it, but Birdie confesses that she keeps a secret phone ( she is prone to write dumb things because she is dumb and offend everyone on the planet, so Peg took away her phone, not knowing of the other one, because it was her "secret phone...). Two years ago, or something, Birdie got an email informing her of these sweat factories, and she kind of complimented them on their good work, thinking that the term only meant that they worked hard...
Miles wanted to play a whodunnit game all weekend, and has barely finished introducing the game and its rules that Blanc resolves it immediately, frustrating him no end. It turns out he had hired a famous writer to come up with an elaborate plot, and now it's all ruined.
Miles insists that they stay anyway, and have fun drinking and dancing, when suddenly Duke starts choking and falls down, dead. Miles yells that Duke was drinking from his glass, which means someone wanted to kill HIM, and chaos ensues.
Blanc meets Andy running towards him, but calls her Helen right before someone shoots her...
and now we learn Blanc's side of the story. It was Andy who delivered the box to him, only she's not Andy but her twin sister Helen. Andy is dead, apparently suicide but Helen does not believe that at all, and wants Blanc to find out the truth, and in turn he convinces her to play her sister's part to spy on the others. Helen had sent an email that she had finally found the original napkin, where SHE wrote the idea for their company, and when they heard of it all the four 'friends' went to her house to 'readon' with her, but nobody opened the door... all four had reason and opportunity, but there is still the matter of the red envelop with the napkin...
Blanc tells Helen to search everywhere for it, while he keeps the others occupied, a thing that he accomplishes by telling everyone the truth on what an idiot Miles really is, who never got an idea for himself, not once, even for the murder he took inspiration from something Blanc himself had said to him. Blanc makes the others think, really think, without a thought to what Miles said to them, and yes, it was Miles that handed his glass to Duke, a glass in which he had added... pineapple juice, I think it was, and Duke was terribly allergic to that! He killed him because Duke saw him driving away from Andy's house that night, and he just now saw on his phone about Andy's death. Duke didn't tell the others because he didn't care about her, but only on Miles investing on him. That was also why he had asked Whiskie to try and seduce him into doing just that, but Miles refused.
After Blanc's throrough explanation on Miles stupidity, Helen arrives wih the napkin, that she (admittedly rather stupidly) thrusts right under Miles nose to show him that it is the original, with the club's logo that his own napkin does not have since the club closed down and he couldn't get his hands on one. Miles sets it on fire, their only proof...
Blanc tells her they have no proof now, but she should remember why everything started, which was because Andy refused to bet everything they had on Miles obsession for that dangerous power source, so Helen starts smashing everything around her, and for a bit Claire, Lionel and Birdie join in the fun, but are no more amused when she starts a fire as well, and throws a piece of that crystal-ly thing that powers the island in the fire, which resulted in the glass dome upstairs to shatter and, well, I don't know, everything exploded, and Helen made sure that the Gioconda that Miles was so obsessed with burned with the rest.
Miles tries to blame it all on Helen, wants the others, his 'team', to lie for him like they did at Andy's trial, until she points out that his beloved power source just burned the Gioconda, the famous MonnaLisa, and finally the others turn against him. About time.
I think I said everything... oh yeah, Helen didn't die because he shot her precisely where she kept Andy's diary (under her jacket) so the little diary took the bullet for her. Whiskie cared about Duke, on some level, but did not like his channel or that kind of attitude, but stayed with him to have exposure for her future prospects.
And there was another man on the island, one that you occasionally saw in the background, but as he always said, never mind him lol
So, I really liked it, it was funny, and entertaining from beginning to end, and all the actors were really good. I didn't care for Claire at all, but then she was the politician, so maybe that is alright, as things should be, politicians in my experience are not to be liked so: well done.
Birdie and Peg's actresses: great. Edward Norton was just as slimy and un-likable as Miles should be.
Birdie was Kate Hudson
Blanc was Daniel Craig
Miles was Edward Norton
Duke was Dave Bautista
Blanc's home partner was Hugh Grant (he opened the door to Helen when she went to Blanc with her case)
The man on the island was Ethan Hawke
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