Review: Confess, Fletch
Jon Hamm plays the title smart arse, a former investigative journalist who gets caught up in a case involving kidnap as well as the theft of a Picasso. Lorenza Izzo plays the daughter of a Count (Robert Picardo of all people), with Marcia Gay Harden playing her stepmother. John Slattery is Fletch’s former editor, and Kyle MacLachlan plays a germaphobe art dealer. With all due respect to the original stories by Gregory McDonald, if you’re gonna do a “Fletch” movie, you’re gonna be compared to the Michael Ritchie/Chevy Chase vehicles because those are more well-known. In other words, you better be damn funny if you don’t want to end up looking like a damn fool . I love the 1985 “Fletch” , and whilst Jon Hamm isn’t miscast as the title smart-arse detective (Jason Sudeikis would’ve been even better), this 2022 film from director Greg Mottola (the genuinely funny “Superbad ”) and co-writer Zev Borow (a story editor on TV’s “Chuck” ) just ...