Don Draper may have been the role of a lifetime, but Irwin Fletcher is the role Jon Hamm was born to play.
Equal parts goofy, charismatic, boozy, and clever, Hamm is firmly in his element in Greg Mottola’s entertaining art heist romp “Confess, Fletch” (Fletch being our hapless hero’s preferred moniker).
Swashbuckling through the fast-paced action like a clumsy James Bond (with far less combat training), he finds himself at the center of a high-stakes art theft with a family fortune at stake.
Surrounded by an eccentric ensemble of fabulously suspicious characters played by a deep bench of fantastic comedic actors, It doesn’t break the mold, but it’s an unmitigated delight.The movie is based on the “Fletch” novels by Gregory McDonald, a popular mystery series published between 1974 and 1994.
The character, an ex-marine turned journalist who stumbles into Pi work, was first dramatized onscreen by Chevy Chase
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