An adult-oriented crowd pleaser of the sort that seldom gets made any longer without superheroes being involved, and better than that, is quite entertaining, “A Haunting in Venice” extends 2023’s s…
adaptation offers a nimble stopgap between drier art-house fare, traditional studio tentpoles and scrappy genre material leaching ticket sales from their pricier competitors — while satisfying all three potential audiences.
Shortly after the events of “Death on the Nile,” Branagh’s Poirot is living in Venice, where he has retired comfortably enough to afford a 24-hour bodyguard, Vitale Portfoglio , to protect him from would-be clients accosting him in the streets for his services. Despite Poirot’s own insistence that he has no friends, he’s visited by one of them: Ariadne Oliver , a mystery novelist who made her name by fictionalizing the misadventures of the Belgian detective.
As with the previous films in this series , the casting is key to the success of the story, even more than the resulting solution to its mystery. For better or worse, the star-director takes his foot off the accelerator just a bit to play a slightly less sexy Poirot than in previous outings .
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