Movie; Murder Mystery 2 Caution Spoiler Alerts

 Murder Mystery 2

Came out; 2023

Time; 1 hours 30 minutes

Watched: Netflix

Rating; PG-13 for violence, bloody images, strong language, suggestive material and smoking

IMDB Rating; 5.7/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring.

Adam Sandler as Nick

Jennifer Aniston as Audrey

Mark Strong as Miller

Melanie Laurent as Claudette

Jodie Turner-Smith as Countess Sekou

John Kani as Colonel Ulenga

Kuhoo Verma as Saira

Dany Boon as Inspector Delacroix

Story Line.

Full-time detectives Nick and Audrey are struggling to get their private eye agency off the ground. They find themselves at the center of international abduction when their friend Maharaja, is kidnapped at his own lavish wedding.

Thoughts;

This wasn't as good as the first one, it had it's funny moments for sure

I like Adam Sandler & Jennifer Aniston together, they have good chemistry on screen

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

Four years after their escapade in Monte Carlo, Nick and Audrey Spitz are full-time private detectives. Accepting an invitation from their friend, Vikram "The Maharajah" Govindan, to attend his wedding on his private island, they hope their association with him will lend their failing detective agency some professional credibility.

There, they meet Vik’s French fiancée Claudette Joubert, his flirtatious business partner Francisco Perez, his former fiancée Countess Sekou and her lady-in-waiting Imani, his reticent sister Saira, and their old friend Colonel Ulenga, who is now missing his left arm after saving Vik from an assassination attempt in Mumbai.

At the wedding, Audrey notices a cloaked figure following Vik's elephant. A dead body falls from the elephant and turns out to be Vik's bodyguard, Lou. Nick suspects that it is a diversion and watches Vik's abduction by a mysterious figure. Realizing that they are once again ensnared in a conspiracy, the couple determine that at least two perpetrators must have been involved: one to create the diversion and the other to kidnap Vik.

The next morning, the group is joined by a team of professional detectives led by former MI6 hostage negotiator Connor Miller. The kidnapper calls and tasks Nick to deliver a ransom of $70 million to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in exchange for Vik.

Traveling to Paris, Miller takes Nick and Audrey to the exhange point. The kidnappers force the couple into a van at gunpoint. Inside, the couple fights them, ending with the kidnappers dead and the van crashing into Café Procope. They realise they are being framed for Vik's abduction with footage of Nick running out of the tent brandishing a knife; Miller arrives and clarifies that the footage is a deepfake. After taking the briefcase of money and asking them to meet him at the La Madeleine, Miller is seemingly killed when his car explodes. A mysterious figure steals the briefcase, only to be robbed of it when hit by a truck.

With the assistance of Inspector Laurent de la Croix, the couple trace the truck to a countryside château where they are ambushed by Sekou and Imani, who insist they are not the kidnappers and only want the money. Sekou shoots Imani and attempts to kill the couple, but is herself shot dead by a dying Imani. Nick and Audrey escape and call de la Croix and the others, requesting Vik be brought to the Le Jules Verne restaurant at the Eiffel Tower. Vik appears at the rendezvous, strapped into a bomb vest. Nick reasons that the killer would never jeopardize the ransom. As he predicts, the bomb's countdown is suspended and Miller, the mastermind of the abduction, appears; he had faked his death by hiding in a bomb-proof titanium chamber within the car moments before the explosion. He attempts to kill the group, but Audrey clings to his harness and is pulled to the top floor.

Nick pursues them, subdues Miller's men, and destroys the detonator. Miller throws Audrey, who is still connected to his harness, off the tower. The two men engage in hand-to-hand combat, culminating with Nick opening the briefcase and dispersing the money into the wind. Audrey reappears and helps Nick tie Miller's harness to the tower's elevator mechanism, throwing him into the rotor blades of his getaway helicopter, which explodes and crashes into the Seine.

Returning to the restaurant, Audrey mistakes Saira's darkened hand for blood, but Saira insists her henna smeared during the commotion. Audrey realizes that Saira was not present when Vik's elephant was ushered into the reception ceremony, and recalls that the cloaked figure who killed Lou had a wet henna stain on their clothes. Saira is the second conspirator; she was upset that Vik's parents gave him sole control over the business, and she had previously tried to kill Vik in Mumbai. Exposed, Saira attempts to shoot Vik but he is shielded by Ulenga, then Claudette knocks her out with the briefcase.

With the commotion concluded, Vik and Claudette decide to elope and give Nick and Audrey $10 million. On a honeymoon in Greece, they are accosted at gunpoint by their helicopter pilot; he steals the millions and jumps out of the helicopter, leaving them scrambling for the controls.