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Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)
Episode 1, Season 10
The least of the Poirot series
27 December 2007 - 33 out of 45 users found this review helpful.
I am sympathetic to the darker, new Poirot; but I retain my hostility towards unnecessarily bizarre and arbitrary plot developments. The motives of the characters are totally inscrutable and the evidence, as it unfolds for the viewer, does nothing to advance the solution, which remains abrupt, arbitrary, and absurdly implausible. The end does nothing to pull the story together so that it reaches any kind of satisfactory conclusion; and Poirot seems like an insane diviner rather than a brilliant analyst of facts.
That said, the actors' performances continue to bring the characters to life, which is amazing, given the absurd positions their screenwriters put them in. The three points I award this installment are for their sake.
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