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Murder Mystery: An Enjoyable Action Comedy with Popcorn

Sukanya reviews Murder Mystery, a 2019 film, enjoyable action comedy. An exclusive for Different Truths.

Director:  Kyle Newacheck

Writer:  James Vanderbilt (screenplay)

Stars:  Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Luke Evans

“Nick Spitz: You’re an actress, right?

Grace Ballard: All women are actresses, dear. I’m just clever enough to get paid for it.”

When an NYC cop (Adam Sandler) finally takes his spouse (Jennifer Aniston) on a long sworn European tour, a chance meeting on the aircraft gets them asked to an intimate family get-together on the Super Yacht of ageing billionaire Malcolm Quince.

When an NYC cop (Adam Sandler) finally takes his spouse (Jennifer Aniston) on a long sworn European tour, a chance meeting on the aircraft gets them asked to an intimate family get-together on the Super Yacht of ageing billionaire Malcolm Quince. When Quince is slaughtered, they become the key suspects in a modern day whodunit.

Simple plot, worthy performances, jokes that land — all the elements of the movie work fine. Great chemistry from the lead characters and the rest of the cast are hilarious and well placed. The action scenes were pretty decent and should preserve its action comedy fans happy. The jokes were all well placed and often and they won’t disappoint fans of the genre, not too much toilet humor and back to the good old Sandler days. Don’t count on anything serious, it’s just a light one to sit back with your popcorn and enjoy the movie.

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Sukanya Basu Mallik
Sukanya Basu Mallik is a renowned Indian writer, known for her works in various publications and for winning Best Manuscript Awards for fiction & non-fiction categories (Mumbai Litofest, 2018). She is currently pursuing a PhD at IIT Madras, focusing on organisational behaviour and art-based therapies for enhancing teaching-learning effectiveness using immersive technologies. She was recognised for her short story 'Healing of Wounds' at NCLF, led by Ruskin Bond.

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