"Wake Up Dead Man: Mystery Nives Out Mystery" premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, and reviews have shone. Much of the praise has been used in Gothic vibrations, as well as the charming fraud of co-lead Oshos O'Connor, but I think the biggest achievement is how fresh the movie feels. "Wake Up Dead Man" is definitely not a repetition of "glass onions", nor is it a repetition of "knives outside", and that's the best thing about it.

The first two "knives outside" films were for all classes: they first looked at the old money rich in the Harlan family, and then the new money rich in Miles Bron. "Wake up a dead man", however, is for religion and it's not just here to use it. There are several repeated motives from previous films (in particular, writer/director Riyan Nsonson cannot resist, including the influence -type character), but for the most part "Wake Up Dead Man" feels like his own special work.

This is a relief for several reasons, the most obvious that the franchise has so far avoided offering us proper Whodunnit. The "knives outside" seemed to have resolved the killing in the first act, and the murder in "Glass onions" proved to be fraudulent, comically easy to solve. (This may have been intentionallyBut it's easy to see why not everyone was on the ship.) This franchise could not afford to pull another trick like that; It was supposed to give us a serious, appropriate whodunnit this time, not another great subversion of the formula whodunnit.

Another relief is that this proves that NSONSON was not joking in 2022 When he said he wanted these films to function as Agatha Christie's novels. He said he wanted to "make a whole new mystery every time, a new location, a new" new hostility "characters gallery. The most important for NSONSON were the constant changes in tone, structure and thematic volume. As he said:

"(Christie) mixed genres, she threw crazy narrative turns that had never been made in whodunnits before. She kept the audience on her fingers, and every book had a whole new reason to be."

Agatha Christie fans can understand exactly what NSONSON talked about. Christie wrote over sixty novels throughout her life, all played not only with the expectations of a mystery of murder, but especially by the amount of her fame, with the expectations that readers had for Christie herself. Nsonson now pulls the same feat in film form.

A fun similarity between Hercules's Poor of Christie and Benoit Blancon's Blancon is how different their roles in each story are. Sometimes they stick to the hand in length ("The killing of Roger Acroyd", "knives outside"), and sometimes they are the character of a view from the beginning ("Orient Express Murder", "Glass onion"). While watching "Wake Up Dead Man", Christie's novel, which first came to my mind, was her book "Murder in the Blue Train" in 1928, in which the cast did not appear for almost a third of the road. Blanc does not appear until the same point in "Wake up Dead Man" and he introduces an extra burst of energy in the story when he does.

It is a clean palette of Christie that made her rise above other mysteries of mystery of her time, and that is what we hope will allow the franchise "knives outside" to remain a notch above the rest of the mysteries genre. Christie was not a one -time pony and nor Nsonson, which is good because the fun of "knives outside" will end as she feels like NSONSON from things.

That feeling of fatigue is already felt in another great series of anthology, "White Lotus". It is a show that similarly changes its roles and setting up with each season, but by season 3 there is already repeated a little too often. It is difficult not to feel like a show -Show Mike White to run out of things to say about rich people on vacation, and the big question of Season 4 is whether he can appropriately resist that increased complaint.

It's a problem that Rihan Nsonson is still gone. There are many potential criticisms that some viewers could have "Wake Up Dead Man" when it does its broad theater edition on November 26, 2025, but "the same old old" will not be one of them.