Very atmospheric (IF DARK) but also way too talky and dull. The characters were not well presented, so I couldn't tell who was who until halfway thru the film.
Kenneth Branagh (who also directed) is an effective Poirot but that's about where it stops. I'm tired of Tina Fey. She plays the same character over and over again and here is amazingly unbelievable as the venerable writer (30 books) and long-time friend of Poirot. Michelle Yeoh has a small part as the fake medium named Joyce Reynolds (oh really?) and Jamie Dornan plays the the shell-shocked doctor. Never heard of any of the rest of them.
I found myself paying more attention to the sets than the story. Christie's original book ("Hallowe'en Party") takes place in England and there's no psychic medium or seance. Changes for the sake of change. Amazing that all those Venetian orphans spoke English in 1947.
A dull affair, bad casting.
Kenneth Branagh (who also directed) is an effective Poirot but that's about where it stops. I'm tired of Tina Fey. She plays the same character over and over again and here is amazingly unbelievable as the venerable writer (30 books) and long-time friend of Poirot. Michelle Yeoh has a small part as the fake medium named Joyce Reynolds (oh really?) and Jamie Dornan plays the the shell-shocked doctor. Never heard of any of the rest of them.
I found myself paying more attention to the sets than the story. Christie's original book ("Hallowe'en Party") takes place in England and there's no psychic medium or seance. Changes for the sake of change. Amazing that all those Venetian orphans spoke English in 1947.
A dull affair, bad casting.