Every movie Agatha Christie with Hercule Poirot from Kenneth Branagh, ranked

Although the “Exit Skakin” series of the mystery of the murder gets all the ducts these days, the latest Hercule Poirot films (directed and starring Kenneth Branagh) also deserves some love. They may not win the Academy Award any time soon, but the three are all fun hours. You can say that Branagh loves to play this funny French investigator, and everyone responsible for the period of the period and the specified design spends a fun time with him as well.

Perhaps the most impressive is that Branagh added more to Poirot than the books did, although I realized it might seem row. Poirot is generally held in books along the arm of the narration, while the Branagh approach remains largely in his head. Sometimes, Branagh’s attempts to give the human nature do not work to Poirot – see that The story of the origin of the flashback Back is ridiculous In “Death on the Nile” – but it is generally impressive.

According to what was reported, Christie Beirut did not like much. according to One script writer worked with her“There were things clearly about this character that I really created and that I truly wounded. It was trivial and a kind of selfishness – these things that make Poirot the great character he is.” But while Christie never liked Poirot, Branagh is doing clearly, and this helps these films shine even when the scenario decreases.

So, here is the arrangement of the Poirot movies that we have obtained so far, which have been classified from the worst to the better. Please note that even the worst movie in this list is still an enjoyable watch.

From the delivery of the strange Galle Galle line to the giant elephant in the room that was the presence of Army Hamer in the actors, “Death on the Nile” is the movie that everyone loves on the Internet to make fun of. Frankly, They should.

Perhaps the most convenient thing is the way this film reduces the comment (somewhat already somewhat) of the source material. In the book, there is an angry young communist figure suspected of being fatal but eventually justified. The film changes this character to the socialist socialism, then abandons the class comment completely when it reveals that the socialist character is in love with her nurse secretly. There is no objection to the big changes in the source materials in these films (see choice No. 1), but this is what made the story less interesting.

The biggest problem with “death on the Nile” is that the central puzzle is weak. Everything depends on a development on the coordination of the mystery of the killing, which may have been new and surprising in 1937, but has been done from then to death in other mysterious stories. The only thing that makes mystery difficult to solve is to assume that the film hopes to make it, but most contemporary viewers will not adhere to this assumption at all.

You thought this would be my favorite in the series, given the presence Nothing is better than a good train movie And “killing on Orient Express” was definitely one of Christie’s best novels. But this is a movie that really fights to give its stars inlaid in the spotlight. This is a story that includes more than ten suspects, all of whom play an important role in the main ambiguity, but the time of the film for two hours does not have the ability to properly embody them.

The result is a movie where the final statement appears to appear as a little cheat, even if he aims to Poirot in its most interesting moral dilemma in the entire series. Perhaps it seemed to be a smart choice for Branagh to adapt the richer and unforgettable book in the Christie’s Poirot series, but the more I watched this movie, the more you felt that he should have saved this later. It would have been a Branch seed in the last few scenes better if a lighter movie came, first.

This appears to be a wonderful source of source. The next two films do not feel freely made the main adaptive prosperity without sponsorship in the world, while this film has struggled to press the largest possible book. The result was a promising start for this new Poirot movie series, but not a great movie in itself.

I don’t only think that “Venice Historic” is the best of the three movie, but I think it is leaps and borders above the other two. It was beautifully photographed in a continuous creeping atmosphere, and the new role of Tina Fai was the author of the respected successful crime, Aryader Oliver, a welcome addition to the series. It is the only movie for the three as the mystery feels completely evolution, as all suspects get their time to shine.

What makes a “dated gun” more impressive is that it easily adapts to what is the worst book in the series so far. The book is an adaptation to “The Hallow’en Party”, which is the late Christie who felt the rush, is inspiring, and it means unusually. Perhaps this is because of the lack of popularity of this book is that the script book felt sufficiently confident Really major changes. “Distinguished in Venice” The border line cannot be identified from its source materialAnd this is the best thing about it. There is a sense of creative freedom behind this project that had no previous films, with no usual adaptive breeds.

After two dirty opening participants, “A Haunting in Venice” is the Branagh Poirot movie where the crew and crew were suddenly imprisoned. We do not yet know which book will adapt to the next Poirot movie, but we hope that the series will continue in the approach of this movie in choosing books that no one is very associated with. Branagh should continue to choose the weakest Christie novels, using them as loose plans just to go as he did here.