I liked this a lot, even if it was rather sad at times. The characters were all interesting, as was the story. The ending felt rather abrupt, a bit disconnected, rushed, but all in all it was a good film, and I’d watch more if they have the same cast. Very British. I liked it.
I must say that the solutions were a bit rushed, not really satisfying, but I liked that is starts with one but there are actually four murders with four different culprits.
I also didn’t appreciate Joyce’s vehement and rather rude phone call to her daughter to enlist her help.
Basically they meet in the ‘puzzle room’ to work on cold cases… for fun, Id say, since they’re all old and retired. Elizabeth starts mysterious but it’s clear she worked in the spy business, and it turns out she was MI6. Ron was a Union leader, Ibrahim was a psychiatrist, and they live in this rich village for retired rich people. The three of them try to solve a cold case a week. They start on the case of poor Angela who was killed in the 70s, when cop Penny was young. All the male cops believed Angela’s boyfriend but Penny didn’t, and yet she always refused to work on that case while she was part of the club. She isn’t anymore because she’s in a coma.
They ask Joyce’s help, because she was once a nurse and can therefore provide medical knowledge.
This case will be sort of put on hold, though, because other two murders happen.
Short version: Ian and Tony owns the property. Ian now wants to send them all away and make apartments for rich people to make money. Tony doesn’t agree because his aunt resides there too.
Tonny is found dead in his own home, Joyce is thrilled to have a new case, to be actually involved in an ongoing investigation, so they manage to have their friend Donna, a cop they recently met, very much bored here because she used to work in London but here they have her fetch their coffee and nothing more. Elizabeth plots with her friends to have her working the case.
At first the obvious suspect is Ian, because without Tony he could push forward his project, but Ron’s son is also a suspect for a little while. Ex boxer and now tv celebrity, Jason figured in a pictured with the victim but he has an alibi, he was with Ian’s wife and has pictures on his phone to prove it.
When Ian comes to confront the residents’ protest, he’s killed with an injection.
Elizabeth talks to Bogdan, a man who would do almost anything to be able to send money to his old mother in Poland, and they’re quite friendly.
They also find out that Bobby Tanner, the third owner of the property and famous criminal, is still alive.
Bogdan calls Elizabeth when he finds a body on a grave… it clearly shouldn’t have been there, and it will be IDed as Angela’s boyfriend.
Elizabeth and Donna find out that Tony and Bobby were together in their crimes: human trafficking, they bring immigrants in but then they take their passport away to own them in their power.
It’s now clear that Bogdan killed Tony, and the first to know this is Stephen, Elizabeth’s husband who is slowly losing his mind, but still has good days, or good moments, and while alone with Bogdan he reveals that he knows, and Bogdan confesses that he did it, but accidentally, he never wanted to kill anyone, he only wanted to go back home because his mother is ill.
Elizabeth runs home with her heart in her throat, terrified that Bogdan might kill Stephen too, but no, Bogdan didn’t put anything in his glass (or cup, whatever). He is arrested because Stephen always records everything, hehas a recorder with him and she knows it but Bogdan didn’t.
And now, Elizabeth walks into Penny’s room to talk to her husband because now she knows: Penny knew that Angela had been killed by her boyfriend, and also knew that he would get away with it, so she killed him. Her husband can’t do anything for her now that she’s in a coma, but he could try to protect her, so he wanted to stop Ian because Ian wanted to destroy the graveyard (there’s got to be a better word but I can’t think of what it is now) and the body would have come up. He didn’t know that Ian had told Bogdan to start working by himself while he kept the residents occupied in their protest, so that he could later say that the project had indeed started.
Now the poor man feels very down because he feels he failed at protect her, and it is clear that there’s only one remaining way to protect Penny. Elizabeth undestands but leaves, allowing him to inject both Penny and himself with the same thing he used on Ian.
The film ends wih the three friendds officially welcoming Joyce into their club by giving her the TMC necklace that used to be Penny’s. Then they suggests to Joyce’s daughter that she might buy the property so that nobody will be able to send them away, ever.
Helen Mirren is Elizabeth
Pierce Brosnan is Ron
Ben Kingsley is Ibrahim
Celia Imre is Joyce
David Tennant is Ian
Jonathan Pryce is Stephen
Richard E. Grant is Bobby Tanner
Naomi Ackie is Donna
ITA il club dei delitti del giovedì
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