Very mixed feelings on this one. The staging of the action remains astonishing, the long overhead sequence in the French house in particular. But the more these sequences defy the laws of physics and anatomy, the less fun they are. Not that the first film was realistic, but back then, you could at least tell when and why someone would be killed and when they’d just be injured.
Also, the more we learn about Assassin World, the less I care.…
Just a joy. The classic case of spoilers being irrelevant, since the one thing I knew going in was whodunnit.
As a young man of a certain age, I loved loved loved the 1985 Fletch movie with Chevy Chase. I've seen it so many times I can probably quote 2/3 of the script. (And, thus, smiled when this movie's climax featured a line from the original.) My love of that movie led me to Gregory McDonald's series of Fletch books, which in time I grew to love substantially more than the film. The Fletch of the books is different than…
