Okay, so the critics hated it and no way is it going to be the
funniest film you'll see this year but this Netflix production is silly
enough to produce enough belly-laughs to pass an evening. The "Murder
Mystery" of the title occurs on board a yacht in the middle of the
Mediterranean where Terence Stamp's billionaire is stabbed to death in a
room full of people when the lights go out. Two of the people in the
room are Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, an American couple on a very late honeymoon who were invited there by the billionaire's nephew, Luke Evans, whom they met on the plane.
These two are like a not very bright version of Nick and Nora Charles
and this is much closer to something like "Murder By Death" than "Murder
on the Orient Express"; in other words, only about one in four of the
gags actually work but since the gags are coming thick and fast that
hardly matters. It's ultimately saved by Sandler and Aniston who turn in
performances worthy of 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In' if not 'Saturday
Night Live' and among the supporting cast, there's a nice turn from that
fine British actor Adeel Akhtar.
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