{"id":31980,"date":"2025-08-30T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31980\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:43:14","slug":"the-thursday-murder-club-review-a-film-so-dull-youll-forget-about-it-even-as-youre-watching-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31980\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thursday Murder Club review: A film so dull you\u2019ll forget about it even as you\u2019re watching it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Netflix; Cert 12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan deserve better than 'The Thursday Murder Club'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1acc2df6-e920-4f84-a9ec-f9fef55d217e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan deserve better than &#8216;The Thursday Murder Club&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Celia Imrie, Sir Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan in 'The Thursday Murder Club'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cf4bd0bd-b48d-4b1e-ad38-c663863dabb6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Celia Imrie, Sir Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan in &#8216;The Thursday Murder Club&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan deserve better than 'The Thursday Murder Club'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756518194_825_1acc2df6-e920-4f84-a9ec-f9fef55d217e.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: Celia Imrie, Sir Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan in 'The Thursday Murder Club'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756518194_583_cf4bd0bd-b48d-4b1e-ad38-c663863dabb6.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Curiously, for a film about a group of elderly hobbyists, investigating fraud and murder over tea and sponge cake, The Thursday Murder Club, is sometimes difficult to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The cosy set-up \u2013 amateur sleuths chasing real-life killers from the comfort of their palatial retirement community \u2013 is fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The bland execution, however, is another story entirely. Based on the bestselling novel by Richard Osman, Chris Columbus\u2019s weightless adaptation takes an awful long time to do very little.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Our handsome headliners provide classier entertainment than the material deserves. Pierce Brosnan loses his accent but never his charm as an ex-trade unionist from London. Celia Imrie delights as a widowed baker, and Ben Kingsley portrays yet another respectable clever clogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Helen Mirren, meanwhile, is their charismatic leader, a world-class spy trapped in a lazy and largely suspenseless mystery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Is The Thursday Murder Club a send-up or a tribute to the classic whodunnits of yesteryear? It isn\u2019t funny enough to tick the first box and is perhaps too condescending to check the latter. A film so dull, you\u2019ll forget all about it while you\u2019re watching it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Two stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix; Cert 12 Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan deserve better than &#8216;The Thursday Murder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-31980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}