'Knox Goes Away' movie review: Intriguing but not compelling

Updated On: 29 March, 2024 04:01 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

`Knox Goes Away` movie review: Your eyes may be glued to the screen because of the interesting way in which this premise plays out but the tempo and intensity keeps flagging along the way

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Film: Knox Goes Away
Cast: Michael Keaton, James Marsden, Suzy Nakamura, Joanna Kulig, Ray McKinnon, John Hoogenakker, Lela Loren, Marcia Gay Harden, Al Pacino
Director: Michael Keaton
Rating: 3/5
Runtime: 114 min

Michael Keaton’s second directorial effort, “Knox Goes Away,” tackles a challenging and fascinating ‘Memento like premise. The script by Gregory Poirier is methodically and steadily built with an incrementing degree of difficulty.

John Henry Knox (Michael Keaton), with PhDs in English and History, a Gulf War veteran, and currently a contract killer, suddenly finds himself at sea. He has just been diagnosed with a fast deteriorating dementia condition. Knox is an enigma and we don’t know much about his life other than that he has a standing appointment every Thursday with a call girl (Joanna Kulig). Then one day, while in the midst of sorting out his affairs and righting a contract killing gone wrong, his estranged son Miles (James Marsden), knocks on his front door bloody, battered, and panting. That opening for a subplot leaves a window open for a brief trip into the past. Thereafter we get to know bits and pieces of his life gone astray. He now is left with the unenviable and difficult task of not only sorting out his personal affairs but also subverting a murder investigation that might implicate his son. All this while his mind is going away on a fast trot.

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