Imagine that there is a community theater company in some small town in America and for their next production they have decided to take on one of the Fletch novels. The troup actually does a decent job with the production - the actors can believably say the lines and you get a whiff of the classic character played by Chevy Chase. And that's great, if you are expecting to see a community theater production of Fletch. On the big screen? Yikes. From Jon Hamm's quiet and uneventful portrayal of Fletch to Marcia Gay Harden sometimes putting on an accent, this movie is bad. Chase's portrayal of a greasy yet charismatic detective is the gold standard. To Hamm's credit he wasn't trying to do an imitation of Chase. The problem is something that I've thought of him for a long time: he has zero on-screen charisma. If you hear an interview with him he comes across as a smarty, funny and engaging guy. On the screen? Unless he is playing a stern character there is just nothing there. The editing surely didn't help - at times it felt like characters were having a conversation at two different times and they were spliced together. The whole thing was mediocre.

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