ATTENTION! CONTAINS SPOILERS! This film is a major disappointment. It remains very faithful to the original novel and then at the end, at the moment of the solution introduces a so-called twist (to make it more modern?)by changing the sex of one of the murderers. Instead of secretly married couple, the murderers are now a lesbian couple, a development that is completely alien to the entire novel and, also, to the movie up to that last moment. The change in sex is forced in the screenplay, with absolutely no rhyme or reason and makes nonsense of the motive and the entire plot. Pity! Miss Marple was hardly convincing. Again in an effort to"modernize" the plot we see her drinking spirits and behaving in a way completely alien to the character.
Review of The Body in the Library
