Sunday, June 28, 2020

Murder mystery

Watched English movie "Murder mystery". 

This movie is directed by Kayle Newachek. Screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Produced by Adam Sandler, James Vanderbilt and others. It stars Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Luke Evans, Gemma Arterton and Luis Gerardo Mendez. Music is by Rupert Gregson- Williams. Cinematography by Amir Mokri. Film runs for about 1 hour 40 minutes and was released in Aug 2019. I watched it with Aditi on 10th Apr 2020 on Netflix.

This movie is part of series of movies by Adam-Jennifer where Adam plays a cop who isn't able to pass the detective exam. 15 years after marriage they decide to go for honeymoon to Europe. Here they land on a yatch of a rich wrinkled industrialist when he is about to marry a young lady. Guess what? There is a murder and the American couple is suspect. 

Can Adam and Jennifer avoid arrest? Can they find the real killer? Are there any more murders? How will it end?

Adam plays the underachieving cop who also shows sparks occasionally and keeps cracking bad jokes otherwise. Jennifer plays the pretty hairdresser wife who likes her husband but also likes to have fun. Other characters play their part. 

It's a whodunit murder mystery. So everyone is a suspect and no one appears innocent. However there is hardly any investigation and detective work. Most of the things happen by chance assisted by some deduction. Needless to say this movie has a very unimaginative title. 

Cinematography and music is good. Sets are good. Things appear real. Locations are good. One should not ask questions like: How French police enter Italy and make an arrest without knowledge of Carabinieri? Why an Indian Maharaja speaks with American accent? How can a right handed person plunge dagger deep from left of the victim? and so on..

This movie won people's award for Favourite Comedic movie. 

Watch it for fun, if you don't have a better movie to watch!

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