Cop Nick (Adam Sandler) has promised his wife Audrey (Jennifer Aniston) to take her to Europe at their wedding, but it's only at their 15th wedding anniversary that he actually makes true his promise, and then only to make up for some of his shortcomings. On the flight to Europe, Audrey meets charming Charles Cavendish (Luke Evans), who takes a liking in her and invites her and Nick to travel with him on his uncle Malcolm Quince's (Terence Stamp) yacht, where said uncle is having a wedding, of all people to Cavendish's ex-fiancee Suzi (Shioli Kutsuna). Nick is of course eaten up by jealousy, seeing Audrey and Cavendish getting on so splendidly, yet when he sees the bus they are to travel Europe in, he decides to accept the invitation despite everything. On the yacht, Malcolm announces he plans to disinherit everyone from his family (who are all gathered here of course), and leave everything to Suzi in case of his death, but then the lights go out, and once they go on again, Malcolm's found dead, murdered. Nick, being a policeman - though not a detective as he leads his wife on to believe - takes care of the situation ... but not really well enough, as once they arrive in Monte Carlo, Inspector de la Croix (Dany Boon) tells him that he believes Nick and Audrey are the guilty party. He hasn't got enough evidence for an arrest but confiscates their passports. Now it's up to Nick and Aubrey to prove their innocence, while all Monte Carlo is brimming with excitement as it's Grand Prix weekend, and whatever our heroes do, it seems they're only creating more chaos, and slowly suspect after suspect falls dead, and eventually, attempts are even made at Nick and Audrey's lives - but despite suspects dying by the dozen pretty much, the case gets only more and more complex, and the closer our heroes get to the truth, the more suspicions are heaped on them in the eyes of the police ...

Murder Mystery is a rather weak attempt at making a comedic murder mystery, basically because the actual murder mystery isn't really well constructed, with the culprits really pulled out of a hat in the end rather than logically explained, and then the story is filled with old world clichés that are by 2019 long outdated already. It also of course doesn't help that Adam Sandler's character (as in, the protagonist) isn't really relatable, and he and Jennifer Aniston fail to have the kind of chemistry to really pull of a story like this. On top of that, the whole thing isn't really funny. All that said, one has to admit, the film looks really good, and makes great use of its locations. But that's not nearly enough to save the movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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