Roger Ebert's review
In the discussion (4)
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- The hosts read that Ebert gave it two and a half stars, writing that Chase's performance reduces every scene to the same level, that his inflexible mask of cool detachment keeps viewers from identifying with him, and that Fletch needed an actor more interested in the character than in himself.
- The review is rejected as missing the movie entirely, and Ebert's comedy takes are called consistently bad.
- Siskel nailed it in the At the Movies segment: Chase had been miscast for years and finally had a character whose ironic detachment is the point, while Ebert wanted the audience invested in the character and missed the point. — Sean Fennessey
- Jokes that Ebert thought it was a drama and wanted something like The Big Sleep, The Killing Fields or Chariots of Fire.