Wake up Dead Man (2025)
Premise: In a really catholic kind of move, a young priest is sent “far away” to another church after doing something wrong. The plot twist happens very early in the movie because “something wrong” involved the very relatable need to punch a catholic deacon, and not something involving kids as you’d expect from that institution, but I digress.
You know how awkward it is to move somewhere new: there’s already an old priest there, the congregation is as unwelcoming as possible, there’s also a murder and you gotta get used to the new bakery. Yeah, it’s another Benoit Blanc movie!
Under 90 minutes? Hahaha no, not even close.
Do they say the title? Nope!
First thing I thought of:
Okay, more: Yeah, Glass Onion was a bit of a letdown even though it was a very funny movie, this time we’re dealing with something a lot more along the lines of the original Knives Out although way more grounded in setting. Which actually works really well! It knows it needs to be funny, it also knows when to take the story seriously and Mr Blanc is still as delightful as always. Surprising what you can get when you let good actors talk to each other with a compelling story, huh.
A simple way to improve it: I like that this time around the little (or sometimes not as little) breadcrumbs and clues were enough to let me solve the case on my own, which made me feel very smort and also like, maybe, Benoit Blanc and I could be friends. So, the way to improve it would be to cast me as Benoit’s dumb friend who keeps getting kidnapped, etc.
Trivia about the IMDb trivia:
At 1:53:32, Benoit Blanc is leaning on the alter as he addresses Chief Geraldine Scott, Father Jud, and the suspects, it cuts back to Geraldine who says a line, and then back to Benoit Blanc who is now about standing about 15 foot closer and away from the alter.
haha this loser wasn’t paying attention when Benoit Blanc explained that ever since he accidentally touched the TMNT mutagen (or ooze) he’s been able to teleport around and also he is blind.
