First Trailer

Doesn't look good.

I've never been a fan of these Clue/Hercule Poirot movies with their stunt casting. Too often the scripts are lame -- probably because all the high-priced help each demand their share of screen time at the expense of a good script.

The result is that they are all forced to revert to bad mugging for the camera to sell the (un)funny...

Usual RJ. He needs desperately to be clever, and smart, and irreverent, and subversive.

So he portrays some upper pseudo-Aristocratic class and make them look like a parody. And, well... that was irreverent and subversive... 150 years ago. Oscar Wilde ended in jail because of it... in the XIXth century. Nowadays, he's beating a dead horse. A dead horse that was already dead decades ago.

Besides that, he includes the usual trope 'professional, intelligent and serious black detective investigating white dudes that look down at him'. This character is the only one that doesn't look like a parody. If Rian Johnson wanted to subvert expectations, I mean, for real, he could have made this character part of the parody. He didn't. Making a black character look ridiculous, or parodic, or stupid... nowadays that would require a real irreverent director.

The problem with subverting expectations, when you subvert them for real, it's that it's a risky move for your career.

RJ is being irreverent and subversive with elements that stopped being irreverent and subversive a century ago. He plays safe. He's the guy that follows the herd and doesn't take any risk while he fantasizes about himself being some kind of subversive rebel. A friend of mine had an expression for that: armchair revolutionaries.

I had to throw up a little when the 'CSI: KFC' line came up. Rian Johnson has to be the worst comedic writer of all time.

There's so much negativity in this thread that I feel compelled to post something positive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XOqW8dqq3I