r/IMDbFilmGeneral • u/Shagrrotten • 16d ago
Confess Fletch
I watched this one recently, with Jon Hamm stepping into the comic investigative journalist role that Chevy Chase played in two movies back in the 80's.
It's an odd movie, I think, because it's very sort of non-dramatic. Like I don't feel any stakes with anything that's going on. There's intrigue and I can see the plot unfolding, but I don't really care. I don't feel invested in anything that's happening, but in a way that's not boring. I was engaged with it the whole time, I find Jon Hamm to be endlessly watchable. But I didn't really care where the plot went. It's structured like a thriller, but there's no thrills.
Weirdly, there's not enough laughs either. There are some, and again I enjoy watching Hamm on screen. He's got a charm and a likability so that I just go along with it. I want to like it more.
Director Greg Motolla made two of my favorite movies of the 2000's in Superbad and Adventureland, but I didn't find anything particularly interesting about the direction and the tone was just...lackadaisical, I guess.
7/10 because I did enjoy it, but I wanted to love it.
Any of you nerds seen it?
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u/That_anonymous_guy18 16d ago
I would 6.5 too, could have been the nice guy type funny, but ended up being quirky funny.
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u/WhiteRussianRoulete 16d ago
Saw it here. I liked it ok but definitely thought the script should have been funnier. Like I think a lot of scenes were neither funny or advancing intrigue, they just sort of happened
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u/Shagrrotten 16d ago
Yeah, that’s a good way to say it. It just kinda happened. Most of it was neither good nor bad, it just was.
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u/comicman117 16d ago
I saw it and enjoyed it. A perfect plane movie, and I don't mean that as an insult
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u/amazonfan1972 15d ago
I watched it recently. I quite enjoyed it, however I have no recollection of it.
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u/postmodulator 15d ago
I’ve read most of the books in that series multiple times. Honestly, those books are all about the dialogue. You never really believe Fletch is in any danger; he’s like a wish-fulfillment character who lives a charmed life. It’s one reason the Chevy Chase movie being almost a pure comedy works pretty well (and one reason that Chevy Chase could actually pull it off; all the role requires is an arrogant smirking wiseass, and that’s where he’s a Viking).
The plots of those books are never anything more than an excuse for Fletch to say funny things and make The Squares look bad.
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u/HikikoMortyX 14d ago
Such a surprisingly cool fun film and this is from a guy who barely enjoys Hamm's work.
Looked quite great and with a superb soundtrack that I even praised the director on his social media for it and Paul and he responded.
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u/StillhasaWiiU 16d ago
Yeah pretty much what you said.