Cards on the Table is one of my favorite Agatha Christie novels and I reread it every so often. But this film adaptation is absolutely awful, for reasons described by the other reviewers. I thought these versions were supposed to be faithful to the novels, not destroy them.
This novel is all about character and psychology so it perverts the entire story when the screenwriters completely rewrite the nature of the main characters. Not just Anne Meredith, Rhoda Dawes, Shaitana (he was too stupid and vain to think he'd get killed), and Mrs Lorrimer, but also Superintendent "Wheeler"-not the good Battle in the novel.
Suchet was his usual marvelous self as Poirot and Mrs Oliver was also well played, so this version retains three stars.
Please, someone make a better version of this story so I can get the bad flavor of this one out of my memory.
This novel is all about character and psychology so it perverts the entire story when the screenwriters completely rewrite the nature of the main characters. Not just Anne Meredith, Rhoda Dawes, Shaitana (he was too stupid and vain to think he'd get killed), and Mrs Lorrimer, but also Superintendent "Wheeler"-not the good Battle in the novel.
Suchet was his usual marvelous self as Poirot and Mrs Oliver was also well played, so this version retains three stars.
Please, someone make a better version of this story so I can get the bad flavor of this one out of my memory.