A Fun Murder Mystery

Rating: 7/10 (12 December 2019)

From the poster of this film it sort of comes out that this is one of those overthetop type of murder mystery films that in a way remind me of Cleudo, though a part of me feels that Cleudo is a little more serious than this film. Serious it is not, but I didn't really find it all that funny either. However, from the title, you can probably work out what it is all about as well, namely a dysfunctional family fighting over who gets the patriarch's money.
So, we have this author that has made lots, and lots of money from writing murder mysteries (and of course he writes murder mysteries - what other type of book would an author write when he is the focus of a murder mystery). It seems that he commited suicide, but this private detective is hired by an unknown person to sort of dig into what is going on a bit more.
The film focuses around the nurse who became the patriarch's companion, and follows her through the mystery, and the reading of the will (which, of course, you are going to have as well), and the final solution. Personally, I don't want to give too much away because it does sort of spoil the mystery, and the plot certainly does twist and turn quite a lot during the film, which a well thought out murder mystery is supposed to do.
Of course, everybody (or almost everybody) has a motive, though as was suggested, not enough to actually kill the old man. Yet you can sort of tell that this family is somewhat dysfunctional - money seems to always have that effect on people, especially if these people are all hoping to get a cut of pie once everything is said and done.
Look, it is supposed to be a spoof, though it is a lot smarter than a lot of spoofs that have come out in the past, though it is a good thing that those really silly ones are no longer being made. Yet, I have to admit that I didn't necessarily find it all that funny, though a part of me feels that maybe it is just the eccentricities of the characters that is supposed to make this film interesting. In the end, it was fun, but not one that really grabbed me.