Daniel Craig’s New Knives Out Film Sees 40% Dip From Glass Onion Regardless of Topping Netflix Charts

With 2025 approaching its finish, Netflix introduced again Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise as one of many final main releases on the favored streaming service. As Daniel Craig returned to the position of Benoit Blanc for his third outing, his newest thriller movie has already turn out to be successful, however with a catch.

As Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller premiered on Netflix on December 12, 2025, the streaming platform reveals in new information that threequel turned the #1 film worldwide, with 20.2 million views, whereas having 49.2 million hours considered.

Nonetheless, Johnson’s trilogy entry had a significant 40% dip within the viewership compared to the Glass Onion film from 2022. The second installment got here out throughout an period the place information was solely targeted on hours considered. Whereas Wake Up Lifeless Man garnered 49.2 million hours considered, the second Knives Out movie had 82.1 hours considered.

The Wake Up Lifeless Man solid consists of a number of main Hollywood names, from Glenn Shut, Kerry Washington, Josh Brolin, to Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Thomas Haden Church, and Daryl McCormack. The newest installment has additionally had robust crucial reception.

Wake Up Lifeless Man’s Rotten Tomatoes rating is presently at 93% (primarily based on 281 submitted critiques) within the Critics’ Rating whereas having 94% on the Popcornmeter, from over 1,000 verified scores. With viewers members, it has the very best Popcornmeter score in the entire trilogy, whereas having the second highest Critics’ Rating within the franchise, coming proper after 2019’s Knives Out that has 97%.

In ScreenRant’s Wake Up Lifeless Man film evaluation, Mae Abdulbaki shared how Johnson’s newest chapter has “its charming moments,” regardless of there being “so much to consider by way of the story, and the solid is sweet, if not nice, general.” Nonetheless, Abdulbaki confused that “it’s simply exhausting to look at the film and notice the thriller and pleasure have waned.”

Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, together with Glass Onion and 2019’s Knives Out, are all accessible for streaming on Netflix.