Confess, Fletch (2022)
Directed by Greg Mottola
The roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit - from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized.
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“Confess, Fletch” is more akin to “Knives Out” than “Death on the Nile” by way of having an entertaining hero bouncing off interesting characters without feints towards faux profundity or unearned pathos.
Murder mysteries with a sense of humor are back in vogue lately, with projects like Knives Out , Death on the Nile , and Only Murders in the Building enjoying success as their protagonists — sometimes brilliant, sometimes bumbling — navigate cases crowded with colorful suspects.
His attempts at playing hapless are like watching Rachael Leigh Cook playing the unattractive frump in She’s All That.
Whodunnits have been making a comeback since Rian Johnson’s Knives Out and in this new landscape it’s only fitting that the long problemed reboot of Fletch, the 1985 film staring Chevy Chase based on the novel by Gregory McDonald – although a reboot may not be the right word.