‘Glass Onion’ not as sharp as ‘Knives Out’ but still will please the crowds

Joining Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig, foreground) on a Greek island getaway are sweatpants mogul Birdie (Kate Hudson, left), Birdie’s assistant Peg (Jessica Henwick) and scientist Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.) in “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” (Netflix)

Blanc. Benoit Blanc.

Daniel Craig played James Bond five times on his way to becoming one of the best Bonds ever, and that will always be a signature role for Craig — but wouldn’t it be something if Craig wound up playing the wonderfully eccentric Detective Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” franchise more times than he portrayed Bond? We’re going to get three Blanc movies for sure, from the delightfully subversive and thoroughly amusing original in 2019, this week’s sequel and a third “Knives Out” movie already greenlit by Netflix — and in a recent interview with Total Film, Johnson expressed a willingness to keep on going, “as long as the two of us are still having fun, and as long as we can continue to make these truly new experiences each time.”