#MURDER MOVIE SERIES#
And streaming platform Netflix - known for its abundance of offbeat and fascinating content in its library - has a treasure trove of films and series dedicated to it. Ultimately, a good and gripping murder mystery should be filled with unexpected turns, nail-biting cliffhangers and a smattering of red herrings - enough to get viewers’ undivided attention without trying too hard. A riveting whodunnit may even compel the audience to put on their detective hat and try solving the cases depicted. This genre boasts some of the finest storylines alongside twisty plots that keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
#MURDER MOVIE MOVIE#
This movie wants to be a goof on the genre, with Magda’s rising paranoia (she thinks she’s been targeted) played broadly for laughs, and the police inspector’s clumsiness keeping him two steps behind his unauthorized “helper” and embarrassed by it, as all comic movie cops are.Īnd wherever they were going with this, writer-director Mularuk ensures that the journey is slow and seems even slower.They are gory, dark, even maddening sometimes and yet have a fan following of millions - yes, we’re talking about murder mysteries. Those approaches are both defensible and wrong. And Domagala seems to be fighting the idea that his “inspector” isn’t just a clown, but is capable of a competent moment here and there.
Smolowik plays her heroine as too straight to be very entertaining. “In for a Murder” is a slow-moving thriller that tries to hit a fast-moving target - finding laughs in a murder mystery that for Magda, is very personal. Magda even goes so far as the sneak around interrogating people as she second guesses the police rush-to-judgement in declaring “case closed.” She’s part of the investigation, whether he likes it or not. She starts snooping around, questioning a jeweler, getting info from the missing woman’s parents and telling our inspector that he’s on the wrong track for solving this rare, new murder in suburban Podkowa Lesna. Her friend Weronica disappeared 15 years ago, and whatever the cops say about “case closed,” she still wants to know.Īnd when she stumbles across a dead woman in a vacant lot while walking the family dog, Magda starts to see connections and begins looking for answers.Ī photo of the dead woman shows her wearing Magda’s late friends’ necklace. He could use some help.īut Magda has a secret ache. She used to work as a veterinarian’s assistant, which is the main reason the hunky family vet ( Jacek Knap) seems so flirtatious around her. Magda is a mother of two with a distracted, control freak of a husband ( Przemyslaw Stippa).
or something” (in Polish with English subtitles, or dubbed), tells him “Agatha Christie, positively.” What cast and crew have to content themselves with instead is a barely-involving mystery with assorted intrigues, twists and threats to our Magda, who when asked by her inspector friend if she thinks she’s “C.S.I. There’s inept, lie-on-the-fly undercover work, the funny best friend ( Olga Sarzynska) who teaches that fan dancing class, and a hustling “Psychic Therapist” ( Piotr Adamczyk) who assures one and all that he can’t track down a long-missing friend of Magda’s until she throws a lot of money at him, “rules of the cosmos,” he says - the harder the psychic demands, the higher the price. The amateur, intuitive and “involved” housewife/sleuth, Magda ( Anna Smolowik) figures things out before the somewhat hapless and clumsy police inspector ( Pawel Domagala), whose chief qualification for the job seems to be his neato Columbo trench coat and very big badge. Veteran writer-director Piotr Mularuk (“Zuma”) was going for something light, a frothy murder mystery which has been a staple of Hollywood and international cinema since before “The Thin Man.” But his picture only gets a little bounce in its step when a group of Polish housewives from a Chinese fan-dancer class take on a murderous villain with their fans as “Kung Fu Fighting” rings in from the soundtrack. The Polish comic thriller “In for a Murder” only finds its sweet spot briefly, and then only very late in the third act.
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