I have had no interest in watching any of Adam Sandler's output since his company made their deal with Netflix. Nothing in particular made me actively decide to avoid Happy Madison's films after the Netflix deal, in fact I didn't really have that big an issue with the films they were making before this point with the likes of Blended and Pixels coming across as nothing more than mediocre. In all honesty I just lost any sense of intrigue regarding the output of this company.

Sandler has made 4 films with Netflix beofre this one (not counting Noah Baumbach's great indie drama,The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)) at no point did it hit me that I had missed such a large amount of his work until the auto-play trailer for his latest began playing while I searched for my remote in order to find something to watch. For whatever reason curiosity got the best of me and I decided to sit down and see for myself what I have been missing.

It's nice to see that somethings never change.

Murder Mystery is another perfectly serviceable but equally perfectly forgettable Happy Madison film. Despite it's different premise it still hits all of the same story beats as you would expect when Sandler and his friends are involved. The mystery aspect is underdeveloped which leads to all satire of the genre feeling lacking and uninspired. There honestly ins't all that much to say about this film, I just watched it yesterday and I have already forgotten most of it, I will say that at no point did I feel offended or outraged nor did I feel that I had fully wasted my time. If you are really just looking for something to put on in the background while you do something else and you don't care about having an original plot or clever writing then this might just have to do.

Although I'm giving this a pretty bad score (spoiler alert) I want to stress that this isn't Jack and Jill or Grown Ups 2. Real effort was put into this production by at least some of the people involved, this gave me the same empty feeling as Blended, Just go with it and Pixels. I know that Sandler can do better than this, if you haven't seen his recent stand-up special "100% Fresh" then absolutely check it out, I'm also aware that he doesn't have to do better than this to get people to watch his movies. It's hard to be as outraged about that fact nowadays as it was a few years ago since these films are going straight to Netflix.

As long as Sandler keeps doing his brilliant dramatic roles every few years then I honest don't care about his mediocre comedies anymore. I look forward to seeing his performance in the upcoming Safdie brothers film but until then this is whatever.