There’s another dangerous murder mystery afoot in the latest “Knives Out” movie, and Benoit Blanc is back on the case.
“Wake Up Dead Man,” the third installment of Rian Johnson’s hit detective series, sees the famed Southern sleuth (Daniel Craig) take on his most treacherous mystery yet, as he heads to upstate New York to get to the bottom of an impossibly perfect crime at a small-town church with a haunting history.
The saga picks up with an eager young priest named Father Jud (Josh O’Connor), a former boxer who, after getting in trouble for punching a deacon, gets sent away to assist firebrand head priest Monsignor Wicks (Josh Brolin) at Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude. The two men clash over their different beliefs about faith and how to lead their church’s flock. And when Wicks turns up dead at the height of their feud, right in the middle of a Good Friday service, the whole town suspects Jud as the culprit.
Blanc swoops in to aid the tense murder investigation and help Jud clear his name, but even this mystery proves to be a struggle for the world’s greatest detective when things don’t quite add up.
Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church and Jeffrey Wright also star in the film.
