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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ben Shapiro Reviews: "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery"

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

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4.4 • 152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

It's much more exciting to me when you get, you know, a group of people who are like coming up to you and really, really excited about it.

0:09.6

And then there are other people who walk out, just, I mean, literally saying that was the worst movie I've ever seen.

0:15.5

Having those two extremes to me is, you know, is the mark of the type of movie that I want to make.

0:21.6

Alrighty, folks, we're here to review Wake Up Dead Man.

0:25.6

It's the latest Knives Out mystery from director Ryan Johnson responsible for masterpieces like The Last Jedi

0:32.6

and Glass onion, both of which you could view my prior reviews.

0:39.7

Obviously, I love them.

0:41.4

It is filled with stupid characters and stupid writing,

0:43.6

and Ryan Johnson's a stupid, stupid man.

0:46.2

We'll get to that in a moment.

0:53.9

Wake up!

0:54.6

The latest Knives Out mystery from director Ryan Johnson.

0:58.6

Okay.

0:59.6

So, gigantic cast.

1:01.2

You look at this cast and you think this could be like an all-time great murder mystery, right?

1:04.8

This could be an Agatha Christie murder mystery.

1:07.4

You got Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, the private detective.

1:10.3

And you have Josh O'Connor as

1:11.9

Judd D'Plentese, who is a priest and former boxer. Good actor, he's good. Glenn Close. You have

1:16.9

Josh Brolin, Milacunus, Jeremy Runner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, a veritable wealth of riches,

1:22.3

a cornucopia. And somehow Ryan Johnson blows all of it.

1:30.6

I will say that the movie holds your interest.

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