In the new movie “A Haunting in Venice” actor Kenneth Branagh once again plays his role as detective Hercule Poirot. The last movie in this series was last year’s “Death on the Nile”, which was not reviewed on this blog, mainly because of the low ratings.

These two movies were taken from Agatha Christie novels. As far as this new and hopefully last installment of this mystery/murder series, due to the fact that the two hours were so boring, I for one hope this is the last film.

The story of A Haunting in Venice takes place in Venice Italy, and one flaw is that not nearly enough of the city was shown in this movie, because at least this boring film could probably be converted into a quick travelogue to Italy. Most of this film is shot inside of a massive church-like building. almost always at night, raining and way too dark. The story about a series of murders takes the entire 2 hours to fully resolve, but when it was finally over, I found it too boring to even care about the ending.

A Hunting in Venice stars Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, and Kelly Reilly. Once again, due to the blog and relatively high and incorrect high ratings of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, I sat through this pretty bad movie, with my rating of only 50% and a solid pass, for everyone except those who have a severe sleep disorder.

Based on the very high Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 93% for the new movie “Bottoms” and my continued obligation to this blog, I decided to pay 8 dollars to see this movie.

For me, the highlights were that former outstanding running back for the Seattle Seahawks Marshawn Lynch appears in this film as a gym teacher and the great up-and-coming actor and star of the Hulu Series “The Bear” Ayo Edebiri, who plays the main character Josie, are leads in this film. Ayo along with Rachel Sennott as PJ and Ruby Cruz as Hazel decide to create a high school female “fight club”, mainly because they feel like they are the bottom tier disprepected gays of their high school.

There are too many violent scenes in a gymnasium between the women in this fight club, supervised by the gym teacher Mr. G, played by Marshawn Lynch. Of course, this is a kind of a dark, strange, and too weird comedy film, but the violent fight scenes are way over the top, including when one young woman is kicked in the face while she is lying on a floor by a football player. None of this is funny, a parody, or ever necessary in any movie, much less a comedy. All this makes anyone wonder how or why a movie like this could ever be rated highly under any circumstances. For the majority of this film, there was almost no laughing in the audience I was in; always the all time tell tale sign of a comedy that does not work.

Why the critics who publish on Rotten Tomatoes gave a rating of 93%, makes absolutely no sense with my rating only 30% and an emphatic “miss this mess” recommendation.