It’s as if they had been plucked from other genres only to take a wrong turn in this story. The final product of Confess, Fletch, is remarkably uneven, especially in the sense of having a complete set of characters that are so bizarrely different nothing seems to mesh. Now Fletch is the prime suspect in a murder investigation, as the lead detective, Inspector Monroe (Roy Wood, Jr.), plays the investigation into multiple shady suspects and characters.

He is there to locate Angela’s family’s priceless paintings, and she thinks her ex-stepmother, the wildly eccentric Countess (an over-the-top Marcia Gay Harden), has taken them.

While Fletch is investigating stolen paintings, a woman trying to make it in the art world dies.įletch had just arrived from Rome that night, and his rich girlfriend, Angela ( Knock Knock’s Lorenza Izzo), set it up for him. A young woman with blonde hair in a summer dress. Here, we find Hamm’s Fletch walking into a rented home and finding a dead body. The script is based on the second book in the McDonald series of the same name. Nor can Hamm fine-tune a comic delivery close to Chevy Chase. Alas, director Greg Mottola and co-writer Zev Borow cannot capture Gregory McDonald’s acid tongue. In the movie, Confess, Fletch works better as a nice little mystery and the methods used to solve the crime.

Hamm’s new take on the series of Fletch books is more amusing than anything laugh-out-loud, and that mostly comes from one supporting character. But I recently contracted Covid-19, and I wonder if I lost my ability to laugh or find him funny along with my sense of taste and smell. I’ve always thought Jon Hamm was an underappreciated and underutilized comedic performer.

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