CONFESS, FLETCH MOVIE REVIEW

For those of you who don’t know Fletch, let me give you a brief: Fletch is an investigative journalist (former in this movie) that has quick wit and big mouth. A lot of times that mouth gets him the information he seeks. Other times it gets him in more trouble. There were two Fletch movies in the 80’s, the titular character being played by Chevy Chase. Although the OG films can stand on their own behind Chase’s performance, this new reboot is so much better. Jon Hamm not only puts on the Fletch gloves, he stretches them out, forming to his version of the character. In Confess, Fletch, we find our hero in the middle of a murder investigation, with himself as the lead suspect. Meanwhile, he has to recover a bunch of stolen paintings for his client. So he takes it upon himself to solve the murder, and figure out who stole the paintings. Seems like those two situations are closely linked… Today Jordan, Mike, Lewayne, and Chad gush over this reboot (for once) and hope there’s many more to come in the future.

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DIRECTED BY: Greg Mottola

STARRING: Jon Hamm, Marcia Gay Harden, Kyle MacLachlan, Roy Wood Jr., John Slattery, Ayden Mayeri, Lorenza Izzo, Annie Mumolo, John Behlmann

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Chad Halvorsen (Screener Squad)

Chad Halvorsen currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, where he produces and edits commercials, films, and everything in between. He was always a fan of film/television growing up, spending days in the Summer, making (terrible) home movies with his brothers. Little did he know that passion would carry on into adulthood. Since 2006, Chad has worked for several agencies in various departments. Shooting, producing, editing, production management, directing, and when forced to, writing copy. In 2015, Chad decided to take the big leap and become a freelancer. Since then, he’s produced content for Lyft, AT&T, Target, and Discovery Network. His passion lies in entertaining people, making them feel better, even for a moment. All the pain and suffering of this business is worth it, if even just one person views his work. Chad is a frequent podcaster, most notably posing as a co-host for the podcast “The Film Illogical Society.”

 

 

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter here and read her original writings on Deepest Corners of My Notebook.

 

 

Michael Riojas (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)

The man with the ever-changing nicknames. Born in Austin, Riojas was rocketed to Del Rio, Texas, a literal small ville. In his youth, he was bitten by a radioactive… okay, look. Mike is not very good at this whole “talking about himself” thing. But he has been so obsessed with comics, video games, and anime since childhood- that if one has to choose between listening to Joe Quesada or Mike over any obscure Spider-Man trivia, they go to him (or, at least Martin Thomas once said so).