Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston reunite in Netflix's MurderMystery. Read the review:
Say this for the latest of Adam Sandler's collaborations with Netflix, a string of pictures that began with the much-hatedto be classy. Decked out in expensive-looking clothes and dropping anchor in Monte Carlo, it transplants a pair of blue-collar New Yorkers into an Agatha Christie-style mystery, complete with a foreign colonel, a maharaja and a lord ... no, make that a viscount., a film whose script offers less enjoyment than the average game of.
Sandler plays Nick Spitz, a mediocre cop who can't pass the exam to become a detective, but pretends to his wife Audrey that he got the promotion long ago. Audrey's a hairdresser whose salon buzzes with a thinly imagined take on female dissatisfaction: stylists and patrons bemoaning their husbands' failure to woo them with romantic gestures.
Sneaking out of coach on the long flight, Audrey meets suave Charles Cavendish in the first class bar. As aristocrats are wont to do, Charles invites the couple to join him on his family's yacht for a cruise through the Mediterranean. He needs a diversion, as this is a family voyage celebrating the marriage of his multi-billionaire father to the young woman who until recently was Charles' own fiancee.
The ostensibly frantic business that follows includes hiding under people's hotel-room beds; a vertiginous escape via a building ledge many floors above the pavement; and the requisite narrow-streets car chase in which a novice somehow outmaneuvers a professional racer. As it cobbles its plot together out of so many familiar tropes, you might expect the filmmakers to have brainpower left over for something new in the way of banter or plot twists. No such luck.
Though supporting actors appear to be having some fun playing their versions of Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, et al, only one really earns an occasional smile — Akhtar, whose character is just a London club bro dressed up as royalty. Others are mostly window dressing in a tale as generic, and as dull, as its title.
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