DeathOnTheNile seems “determined not to have fun,” writes rilaws. Read our full review:
, Branagh provides a very serious backstory for famed investigator Hercule Poirot’s mustache. Because not one bit of iconography can go unexplored and unexplained these days.’s approach to this material: strangely heavy and somber. Christie’s cool flint is swapped out for tearful ruminations on lost love in, an intermittently entertaining but otherwise tiresomely lugubrious trip down crocodile-filled waters.
Branagh, though, doesn’t see much of anything as a joke, and won’t tolerate any frivolity. The talented actors he’s hired do their noble best to crisp up the movie’s sodden sog, but they can only fight so hard. It doesn’t help matters that much of the movie was studio-shot against green screen. Just as inlooks distressingly synthetic, digitally gleaming as if everyone involved is on aholodeck adventure.
The movie’s other modern dimension is its mild nods to social ills of the story’s era; race is addressed, as are the quiet pains of the closet. These brief gestures add some new texture to Christie’s old story, but that slight charge of reinvention is not enough to sustain the film. The bulk ofis a plodding procedural that spends too much time on tedious setup and not enough on the pleasures of Poirot’s keen analytical prowess.
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