Knives out is a true disaster

No they didn't. I saw the movie too. Exaggeration much?

Thanks for the clarification. Which one of us said you weren't entitled to your opinion again?

I was largely unimpressed, although it was always watchable, but it is doing great at the box office and both critics and audiences seem to be eating it up.  It is far from a 'disaster' -- and, while I can take or leave it, it's nice to see a movie aimed at grown-ups which is not a sequel or franchise film doing as well as it is. 

I found Knives Out to be "mediocre" at best. I actually possessed no plans to see it, but I could not make something else and thought that I would give it a chance. I concur with a couple of the other posters here that the film manages to be watchable, mainly because it maintains a consistent tone. In other words, the movie is not much, but at least it knows what it is and what it wants to be, and in that sense director Rian Johnson executed effectively. But Knives Out is a farce—a comedy—that struck me as unfunny. Granted, many audience members (and I viewed an early-evening matinee last Saturday) laughed, but I found the humor too obvious and stilted. The cast is fairly impressive, with Daniel Craig delivering the standout performance as a droll, buffoonish private investigator rather inexplicably part of an official investigation. Michael Shannon is also—more slyly and subtly—especially good, but the acting only carries the film so far. And while the mise en scène is sometimes intriguing, most notably during the introductory sequence, the digital cameras fail to provide optimal crispness and definition to the imagery.

Knives Out appears to be inspired by Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985), but that better farcical film possessed macabre sexual and historical subtexts that Knives Out lacks. Indeed, this movie is considerably less risqué. It does offer some contemporary political commentary or debate, but that aspect feels tokenistic. What I do not understand is how some critics perceive some emotional and intellectual heft to a film that is at best a slightly entertaining throwaway. 

I dont agree with some of the things you said but I enjoyed reading it. Good post.