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Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express (2010)
Not Hercule Poirot
It virtually indescribable how truly horrible this movie is. I am Christie fan and have thoroughly enjoyed David Suchet's portrayal of Hercule Poirot over the years. I certainly understand that liberties will be taken when making a novel into a movie and can forgive these differences. However, the script of this movie has David Suchet playing a character we have never seen before and that has never appeared in any of Christie's works. The detective in this movie is dark, brooding, highly religious, bitter and angry. His reaction to the "crime" of the passengers is completely opposite to the novel or any other portrayal Christie's Belgian sleuth. Had this been David Suchet's first appearance as Hercule Poirot it would have also been his last. The writers and producers should try again and release an apology for doing such a disservice to a authors most famous character and the actor who usually plays him so well. I wish David Suchet had refused to play this other character of the same name.