Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, set on the Orient Express.
After a passenger is murdered on the train, Hercule Poirot has to
find out who did it. It has to be one of the other passengers in the
Calais Coach, but which one. All the characters, especially Poirot,
are quite well realised, but does this help one find out who did it
as one is watching? The cinematography is excellent, particularly
when the train is travelling from Istanbul to the Dinaric Alps, where
a derailment occurs due to an avalanche.
Is the film derailed? I don't think so. It merely shifts from the
travelogue of the train journey, to the serious business of the
murder case. Of course, cinematography alone cannot help one solve a
mystery if one hadn't read the novel or watched any previous
adaptations. But Poirot is confused as he investigates the murder,
finding links between the current murder and a murder committed five
years earlier. However, the solution to the case is interesting,
there being a very big twist as to who did the deed.
(And there is a sequel hook too, one of the other Poirot novels)
8.5/10.
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