Where Chase’s two outings as the reporter/investigator are built on goofy disguises and pratfalls (with varying degrees of success), Confess, Fletch finds comedy in gentler, wittier means. and Ayden Mayeri), and with the clock ticking on his freedom, Fletch doubles down in an attempt to solve both the murder and the case of the probably connected stolen paintings. He’s immediately labeled as a prime suspect by the detectives on the case ( Roy Wood Jr. His search is interrupted almost immediately, though, when he arrives at his rented apartment to discover a murdered woman on the floor.
That last point brings him to Boston hoping to find expensive paintings stolen from Angela’s (Izzo) family before her father was kidnapped. Irwin Maurice Fletcher (Hamm), Fletch to his friends, was once an investigative reporter “of some repute,” but these days he’s content loving his girlfriend ( Lorenza Izzo), enjoying the sights of Europe, and tackling intriguing mysteries. Confess, Fletch is an airy delight, amusing and smart in equal measure, and a long overdue opportunity for Jon Hamm to find a big screen role suitable to his particular charms and talents. Thankfully for those of us in the latter camp, there’s a new Fletch in town (and on the screen), and he rings far closer to the source novels than to the slapstick hijinks of Chase’s 80s comedies. Fewer, though, will think first of Gregory Mcdonald‘s original novel or the ten that followed.
Mention the name Fletch to anyone over the age of twenty, and odds are they’ll immediately think of Chevy Chase doing some manner of buck-toothed shtick.
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