Hideo Kojima Watched Knives Out 3 — His Silence Has Fans Wondering What He Really Thought

Hideo Kojima just watched Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man (aka Knives Out 3) and posted one of his famously short reactions. For Kojima, that usually means more than it says out loud.

"Tonight, I watched the third installment of Rian Johnson's Knives Out series, 'Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man'."

Why fans think that brevity is a burn

If you follow Kojima's movie posts, you know the pattern: when he loves something, he writes essays. When he doesn't, the word count drops off a cliff. Last week, his take on the Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk stretched to 219 words. This time? Just the sentence above. Fans noticed fast. Replies included: "Dang. I didn't expect him not to like this one. I thought it was fun," and a simple, brutal "Oof."

Meanwhile, the movie is doing just fine

Critically, Wake Up Dead Man is riding high with a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes. One four-star review singled out Josh O'Connor as a standout and praised how the film deepens Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc, which is exactly what you want by round three.

What this Knives Out actually is

Josh O'Connor plays Jud, a priest with a messy past who gets shipped off to a small parish in upstate New York after an act of violence against another clergyman. His new boss is Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), a charismatic, controversial figure who clashes with Jud — right up until Wicks drops dead in the middle of a service. Benoit Blanc is back to sort through the usual tangle of secrets, alibis, and glances that last a second too long.

• The suspects: Glenn Close, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, and Cailee Spaeny.

Wake Up Dead Man is streaming now on Netflix. Whether you read Kojima's micro-post as shade or not, the movie itself is very much worth testing against your own taste buds.