Directed by:
Michael RitchieScreenplay:
Andrew BergmanCinematography:
Fred SchulerComposer:
Harold FaltermeyerCast:
Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini, Tim Matheson, M. Emmet Walsh, George Wendt, Kenneth Mars, Geena Davis, George Wyner, Tony Longo (more)VOD (1)
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Chevy Chase as a newspaper reporter who changes his identity more often than his underwear. While working on a drug expose, he stumbles onto a scam that gets him up to his by-line in murder, police corruption and forbidden romance. For this ace newsman, it'll be the story of the year, if he can only stay alive till the deadline. (Shock Entertainment)
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Decent, classically constructed solid genre plot versus Chase, making escapades with grin from ear to ear and silly humor in every single scene. In addition, a moronic voiceover and a truly guilty pleasure 80's soundtrack. In the original, I assume journalist / detective Fletch is conceived as a charming cynic who will not take a step without a dry one-liner. Here he is conceived as an asshole. Not that the contrast between serious genre and grotesque humor could not work, it could, and especially with Chase, but here it doesn´t work smoothly, it never gets it right and it all give the impression of a pilot of a second-rate 80's series more than anything else.
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