The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango

TV Movie
2023
TV-G
1h 24m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

929

YOUR RATING

Lacey Chabert and Will Kemp in The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango (2023)

Crime Drama

When a high-profile CEO is murdered on the eve of his company's corporate event in Malta - a high stakes ballroom competition between senior executives - Detective Bailey is sent undercover ... Read allWhen a high-profile CEO is murdered on the eve of his company's corporate event in Malta - a high stakes ballroom competition between senior executives - Detective Bailey is sent undercover as one of the contestants.When a high-profile CEO is murdered on the eve of his company's corporate event in Malta - a high stakes ballroom competition between senior executives - Detective Bailey is sent undercover as one of the contestants.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

929

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
When chiding Sebastian, Bailey calls him different detective names throughout the movie but never repeats the same name twice. They include Miss Marple, Columbo (1971), Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote (1984), Poirot as in Hercule, Rockford from The Rockford Files (1974), Inspector Morse (1987), Crockett from Miami Vice (1984), Sherlock as in Holmes, and Benoit from Knives Out (2019).

Connections
References Perry Mason (1957)

Soundtracks
Don Agustin Bardi
Written by Horacio Salgán (as Horatio Adolfo Salgan)
Performed by Cayao
Arranged by Mikael Jöback
Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.

User reviews21

Review

Featured review

6/10

Malta Mediocrity

Hallmark seems insistent on inexplicably killing all of its successful mystery series and replacing them with mediocre replacements. This latest iteration features Lacey Chabert playing a police detective and Will Kemp playing a dance teacher/actor. They fake being married to solve a murder case in Malta.

First off, the production value of this movie was terrific. It's also nice to see new faces both in front of and behind the camera. I love that both Lacey and Will were EPs on this because it felt like a true partnership in solving the mystery and both characters were equally important. Oftentimes these mysteries only have the female lead as the EP and the story tends to be focused on her with the male lead as supporting. That was not the case here. Lacey and Will also have great chemistry and I liked all the Easter eggs of mentioning other tv detectives. And Will finally gets to use his own accent.

The mystery itself was not very interesting or well developed and I figured out who the murderer was in the first 10 minutes. Also, nobody in 2023 has a paper copy of a boarding pass just lying around before going to the airport. I'd watch more of these jetsetting dancing mysteries but preferably with a different writer. Probably the best of these new mystery series.