Ben Shapiro has been mocked on social media after sharing a lengthy thread about Rian Johnson's latest movie, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
On Monday (December 26), the 38-year-old conservative pundit shared a 17-post thread on Twitter, where he attacked both the writing and the 49-year-old filmmaker's political views.
Shapiro vented his frustrations on the online platform, and his points essentially boiled down to failing to understand that a mystery movie is just.... a mystery movie.
"I regret to inform you that Glass Onion is actively bad," he announced, before proceeding to detail why he had been so offended by the Netflix film.
Read Shapiro's thread below:"We only find out about the actual murder we’re supposed to investigate full one hour and 10 minutes into the film, as well as an entirely new backstory," he complained in one tweet. "We're actively deceived by the writer."
"Rian Johnson’s politics is as lazy as his writing," he added in another. "His take on the universe is that Elon Musk is a bad and stupid man and that anyone who likes him - in media, politics, or tech - is being paid off by him."
The comparison between Edward Norton's character Miles Bron and the 51-year-old Tesla CEO has already been pointed out by fans of the flick.
After posting his lengthy film review, many users on the social media site had a field day teasing the pundit's misguided analysis and were mostly amused that the mystery plot was his main concern.
Game programmer Mathew Chapman responded to his thread and said: "Wow, look everyone: the guy who has repeatedly tried and failed to make films starring Gina Carano that have literally no purpose other than to be anti-woke, has an opinion about an actually good film. I can't wait to see this."
Another humored user also remarked: "Absolutely cracking up at the fact that Ben Shapiro's entire criticism of this mystery film is that it possesses the characteristics of a mystery film."
A third user chimed in and commented: "Dude, this is your IMDB page -- do you really think you can comment on Rian Johnson's work? You claim you're a screenwriter, yet you don't know what 'red-herring' and 'misdirection' techniques are. The confidence that some people have is just fascinating."
While a fourth person joked: "'I got bamboozled by a murder mystery' and taking that as a bad thing is the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever read."
However, the only person who is probably more frustrated than Shapiro is Johnson who revealed that he didn't want A Knives Out Mystery included in the title of the sequel to 2019's hit film.
"I've tried hard to make it self-contained. Honestly, I’m pissed off that we have A Knives Out Mystery in the title," the director told The Atlantic. "I want it to just be called Glass Onion."
But, maybe it's a good thing that the title has the "mystery" part otherwise Shapiro could have been even more confused.
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