From earlier this year Jon Hamm takes over one of Chevy Chase's infamous roles as I. M. Fletch (essayed by Chase in 2 films), a one time investigative reporter now a for hire private eye. Things aren't looking great when after a European sojourn where he engages w/the daughter, Lorenza Izzo, of a rich socialite (who is feared kidnapped), comes back Stateside to Boston to find a dead body in the flat he's been set up in. Izzo shows up fearing some of her dad's prized paintings are in the mix for an exchange so Hamm goes to work through the labyrinthine ordeal by staying ahead of the cops Roy Wood Jr. & his younger partner, Ayden Mayeri, an art broker w/a germophobe complex, Kyle MacLachlan, Izzo's stepmom, Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, while getting help from his old boss at a newspaper, John Slattery (nice Mad Men reunion). Hamm easily settles into the role as if he was born to play it w/his wise acre attitude & not being the best of detectives (or is it an act?) still makes this one of the most infuriatingly likeable characters out there. My only concern is the dumping of this film in theaters w/a quick streaming turnaround may doom its chances at being a franchise or maybe a streaming series...hello Prime, anyone?
Review of Confess, Fletch
