This film obtains first place on the Netflix top in 24 hours

This film with a dream cast has been in the spotlight on Netflix for some time: why is it so successful?

This month of December is particularly exhausting. At work, it’s often time for assessments, deadlines, and the program for the year to come. In other words, there are many things to do, we don’t rest there. Once out, the city is full. Everyone is doing their Christmas shopping, and taking advantage of these particularly warm days for winter. This world exhausts us: we just want to lie on the couch and turn on Netflix. Since we’re incredibly lazy, we’re not going to waste our time looking for a film.

Therefore, we will simply choose the first of the top 10 France. If everyone is looking at it, it must be good, right? While this opinion remains up for debate, since poorly rated turnips also reach first place, we can still agree on a particular film. Its particularity was to reach first place in the Netflix ranking in
24 hours only. Films stay in the top 1 for less time than series, because they are shorter, but this one doesn’t seem to take off. What film is it and to what does it owe such success?

What is this number 1 movie on Netflix?

Few films can boast of being number one on Netflix. Even fewer can boast of being
for several days. However, this is the case for the new part of A History of Knives Out. The film is called Wake Up Dead Man: a story of daggers drawn. This film is the last of the “Knives Out” trilogy. That is to say that the director is the same, the actors and the characters too. It all started in 2019 with the film of the same name: Knives Out. There was a 2 in 2022 called “Glass Onion”.

Knowing that the first two films were real successes, it is no surprise that the third was highly anticipated. It could hardly flop with its more than excellent cast. The main character (Benoit Blanc) is played by Daniel Craig, but in Wake up dead man, we also find Josh O’Connor,
Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila KunisJeremy
Renner, Kerry WashingtonAndrew Scott and many others.

What is he talking about?

For this third part, we find almost the same investigators as in the two previous films. Thus, we have
Benoit Blanc, as the main character. He will help a priest to try to elucidate a “totally inexplicable” murder according to the Netflix summary. However, this priest is
the number one suspect of this affair, which looks a lot like a “perfect crime”.

Very positive opinions on this thriller

Very well rated from Allociné to YouTube via Rotten Tomatoes, the thriller has nothing to be ashamed of. Many people claim that it is
for best film of the trilogy. Even Netflix specifies this. On Allociné, viewers seem to be of the same opinion. “Definitely, nothing stops Rian Johnson (the director, editor’s note) in the saga that he himself initiated in 2019. His imagination seems limitless, to the point that we have the impression that he could still come up with a good dozen new cases without ever going in circles.” Even the minority opinions who find it less good admit that it is the most “bold“.