“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” is an enticingly intelligent and droll, almost pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery enjoyable — a whodunit that lives as much as the expectations set six years in the past by “Knives Out,” which supplied its personal excellent revival of the Agatha Christie spirit, with a tasty frosting of meta cheekiness. (It invited you to look at your self watching your self attempt to resolve a deviously orchestrated crime.) Three years in the past, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” was simply as intelligent, however like loads of sequels to iconic hits it brandished a go-big-or-go-home high quality that made it, ultimately, a bit too top-heavy. It was nonetheless good, however not pretty much as good.
“Wake Up Dead Man” provides us one of the best of each worlds. It, too, is making an attempt for one thing grander than the primary “Knives Out.” However this one is extra rooted and natural than “Glass Onion,” and it returns…
