Is the worst Poirot picture ever filmed. Hercule Poirot is completely misunderstood by Kenneth Branagh. Is dull, thin, melodramatic, almost stupid, has a girlfriend, he fights!, he cried and sobbed!
And the script is all wrong for a Christie's story or any thriller whatsoever. Like if the writer did not read a single Christies novel before writing the script
It anticipate the conclusion. It jumps to the evidence with no method. You have no surprise at all, because is like an spoiler all the time. OK that is a very famous novel, and has very famous films, but you can spot the end since the middle of the film. Is terribly boring.
They want to be very politically correct, so they are many thing that are out of time, character and remarks impossible at that time. Is ridiculous. No rigor at all. Is not a serious effort. Poor Agatha Christie.
The other actors are terribly wasted. Judie Dench, Olivia Colman, Derek Jacobi, Willem Defoe wasted.
But, of course, lots of special effects by computer, that add nothing to the film, and a lot of takes for Branagh that has no respect to Hercule Poirot
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