![]() ![]() When Maharaja’s primary bodyguard is murdered and Maharaja is kidnapped, it’s time for Nick and Audrey to spring into detective mode. The esteemed French actress Mélanie Laurent takes a break from starring in good films to play Maharaja’s fiancé, Claudette Jodie Turner-Smith plays Maharaja’s ex and Claudette’s friend, the Countess Sekou Enrique Arce is the misogynist, womanizing former soccer great Francisco, and Kuhoo Verma is Maharajah’s sister Saira. Ulenga, who has even less of that one arm than he did in the first movie, and they meet the group of characters who are destined to become either victims or suspects in the coming days. ![]() Once the Spitzes arrive at this impossibly gorgeous locale, they’re reunited with John Kani’s Col. Sandler and Aniston still have an effective, super casual vibe together we believe them as this nice, working-class couple, who have started their own detective agency (but aren’t particularly good at it) when along comes the very convenient plot device of an offer of an all-expenses-paid trip to the wedding of their zillionaire friend, Maharaja (Adeel Akhtar), on his private island. Rated PG-13 for (violence, bloody images, strong language, suggestive material, and smoking). Netflix presents a film written and directed by Jeremy Garelick. It’s bigger, louder and dumber than the original-filled with cartoon violence, only occasionally funny dialogue and a group of suspects/victims not nearly as intriguing as the bunch from the first film. “Murder Mystery 2”? Why not? Sure, many of the main players from the original can’t return, what with being murdered and all, but it might be nice to catch up with the Spitzes and see what they’re up to.Īlas, the answer is that they’re front and center in another overseas murder mystery that’s big on pyrotechnics and stunt work but has little to recommend in the way of wit or suspense. ![]() Even though the 2019 comedy “Murder Mystery” had one of the laziest titles ever and was saddled with the not-always-flattering label of being an Adam Sandler Netflix Movie, I found it to be a reasonably entertaining Agatha Christie takeoff - kind of a less ambitious “Knives Out,” if you will, with Sandler and Jennifer Aniston nicely paired as the New York City police officer Nick Spitz and his hairdresser wife Audrey, who stumble their way into solving a series of murders while on a 15th anniversary second honeymoon in Europe. ![]()
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