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Super-sleuth Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is sitting in the bath, in just a fez, playing an online mystery game with friends. He loses. He’s been in the bath for a week. It’s May 2020, mid-lockdown, and he’s going out of his mind. “I need a great case,” he drawls in that, er, ‘colourful’ Southern accent. And at that moment a locked hardwood puzzle box arrives…
Rewind. Why not? We’re taking our c(l)ue from a film that further complicates its fiendishly layered murder mystery is a smash, critically and commercially. Along with Kenneth Branagh’s rather more staid it will relaunch a genre, with and to follow. It will also, naturally, launch a franchise, with Netflix paying a whopping $469 million for two sequels.
