"MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS" (2010) Review

[rpowell]

Comments

[rpowell]

I didn't think the writers handled the theme very well. Not only did I find the writing rather questionable, it allowed Suchet and the most of the cast to indulge in bad acting in the last 15 to 20 minutes.

[miritsu]

This was my favorite Poirot ever. It explored sides of Poirot that aren't necessarily likable, but that made sense; he's so committed to justice, but what justice IS isn't always clear-cut, and at some point he had to come up against that problem. Naturally, he would be resistant to that; he's always been so one-dimensional in his thinking (there's good and there's bad and that's that

[christinah3000]

I truly loved the shows like Marple or Poirot, but if you read the books, then you are very disappointed. The books make more sense than the TV-Shows - no idea why they twist the plots sometimes :(

[rpowell]

I truly loved the shows like Marple or Poirot, but if you read the books, then you are very disappointed. The books make more sense than the TV-Shows - no idea why they twist the plots sometimes.Not always. Sometimes, a movie adaptation can be better than its literary source. I felt that one of the changes in this version - namely the Dr. Constantine character - was well handled by the screenwriter and actor Samuel West. I enjoyed Dr. Constantine's new characterization very much