Review of Confess, Fletch

Director Greg Mottola & star Jon Hamm sadly apply a dryer (even slightly tepid) tone to "Confess Fletch" than their counterparts (Michael Ritchie & Chevy Chase) did in the more slapstick previous 'Fletch' films (1985's "Fletch" & 1989's "Fletch Lives") - despite Mottola writing (with Zev Borrow) a relatively zany plot, involving the titular ex-investigative reporter Hamm chasing stolen paintings around Boston for beautiful Italian heiress Lorenza Izzo (and/or her step-mum Marcia Gay Harden) via art-dealer Kyle Lachlan (and others), while suspected of murder by cops Roy Wood Jnr & Ayden Mayeri (good). It's fun-ish, but nowhere near as much so as it's silly predecessors.