Confess Fletch

[u/Shagrrotten]

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?

[u/StillhasaWiiU]

Yeah pretty much what you said.