Kenneth Branagh is the the real goods. Only gets better with time. This adaptation of Poirot is the Poirot I've been waiting all my long life to see. The older versions of Poirot, in movie and tv series, were good each in their own way.
Some played him as a very serious character. The ones I really didn't care for were the ones where he was played as a curious, 'cute' character.
This version reveals Poirot as a human being, still the character written, but wholly developed. Branagh really is that good, both as producer and as actor.
The story is a tragedy, as it was written to be. Agatha Christie's mysteries could be considered light reading, I suppose, but the breadth and depth of human emotion informed her plots and her characters. This movie gives the stories, and her perspective as told in the stories, their due.
This adaptation is simply breathtaking.
Some played him as a very serious character. The ones I really didn't care for were the ones where he was played as a curious, 'cute' character.
This version reveals Poirot as a human being, still the character written, but wholly developed. Branagh really is that good, both as producer and as actor.
The story is a tragedy, as it was written to be. Agatha Christie's mysteries could be considered light reading, I suppose, but the breadth and depth of human emotion informed her plots and her characters. This movie gives the stories, and her perspective as told in the stories, their due.
This adaptation is simply breathtaking.