Sandler and Aniston play Nick and Audrey Spitz, a NY couple who is celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary. They’re a happy (enough) couple, and Aniston and Sandler have the easygoing chemistry that comes with actual friendship and former screen coupling. Some of the best moments in “Murder Mystery” are the minor beats between the two that define a decade-and-a-half of marriage. They’re so believable as a couple that one wishes they didn’t feel the need to overplay the gender roles for comedy. She is smart and competent, he is shall we say, less attentive to clues in his environment, and yet she defers to him all the same.
They get caught up in what I would have to characterize as a comedic multiple murder situation where money is the obvious motive, and in the end they solve the crime. It is a very diversionary movie, which perhaps best suits our current times. If we are socially isolating, we need to rely heavily on on-line resources, and this is streaming on Netflix.
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