The Thursday Murder Club 2025

talkingfilms.net/the-thursday-murder-club-review-stellar-cast-forgettable-mystery/ "The Thursday Murder Club is a formulaic and forgettable effort. It's not a adversity - the alluring attendance of the casting ensures it never sinks that low - but it additionally offers annihilation we haven't already apparent in second-tier television productions. For those like me who get aflame about the murder-mystery genre, the acquaintance feels like a ashen opportunity. The blithe amusement isn't abundant to accomplish up for the abridgement of tension. For those attractive for light, accessible entertainment, it may serve as a appropriate diversion. But for anyone acquisitive for added than the bald minimum, it will attempt to acceleration aloft mediocrity." Rating: C-

I was absolutely sceptical about this, but I accept to say that I did absolutely adore it - and it’s not generally nowadays you go to a arranged afternoon screening and apprehend bodies beam out loud. There are added parodies actuality than you can agitate a stick at, so aboriginal aerial ball it isn’t, but actuality is a solid accumulating of personalities accumulated to try to break a abstruseness in a chic affliction home. It’s baking-mad “Joyce” (why isn’t Celia Imrie a dame, too?) who acclimated to be a assistant and who is drafted in by the captious “Elizabeth” (Dame Helen Mirren) to advice her baby accumulation of abecedarian sleuths attending into a algid case from a bearing earlier. “Joyce” is anon an acquisitive actor alongside “Ibrahim” (Sir Ben Kingsley) and aged wide-boy “Ron” (Pierce Brosnan) in their investigation, but afore they can alike activate to accouterment one of her absolutely ginormous auto dribble cakes, there is a abundant added beginning abomination to attending into - and one that could absorb bounded acreage developer “Ventham” (David Tennant) who aloof happens to co-own their above alcazar with “Curran” (Geoff Bell). This closing man has had his feel in a few dodgy pies over the years, has a handsome ex-boxer son “Jason” (the altogether manscaped Tom Ellis) and is bent that so continued as his aunt is resident, they will be safe from the grave diggers and the bulldozers. Scene set, we now comedy through some scenarios that acquiesce Amazon Helen to reprise aspects of her “Tennison” and Queen Elizabeth II characterisations; Sir Ben to do the aforementioned - alone after Sir Michael Caine, and for both Imrie and the underused Brosnan to put an agreeable amount of exaggeration into their roles as the artifice thickens and we activate to admiration aloof area “Elizabeth” got that actual chichi XK8 retirement gift! To be honest, the artifice itself is not the best aboriginal and as it develops it does rather await on a bit too abundant afterlife after cutting our own blah beef - but I don’t anticipate that absolutely affairs so much. This is an agreeable abomination antic from a accumulating of stars who attending like they are accepting fun - anticipate “Quartet” (2012) alone with shovels and not Shostakovich; Sir Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Mays and beginning detective - but a absolute one, this time, “Donna” (Naomi Ackie) accumulate the faculty of atrocity bubbles forth absolutely entertainingly whilst accurate licence is taken after aloof about every aspect of badge work, argumentative science and floristry. If you are a fan of appearance actors accomplishing their affair in a august home with affluence of clues, red herrings and Black Forest gâteau, again you can’t absolutely go amiss here.