Reviews

Mar 25, 2020

The actors here try also hard to flesh out roles that are lilliputian more than stock types.

Mar 8, 2018

[Kenneth Branagh] doesn't bring much new to the basic formulation-a bunch of famous actors play eccentrics cooped up on a railroad train, with secrets to be unearthed. But he does embellish the template with sleeky extras.

December ane, 2017

There'southward something quaint and comforting about this film and its brand of old-fashioned storytelling, where coincidences are extremely likely, everyone somehow knows a countess, and a man puts honor in a higher place all else.

Nov 21, 2017

Every cast member is superb, and it's a gorgeous movie to look at. How much its flaws stand up out depends entirely on how much you're willing to buy into its earnestness, which is as impossible to miss equally Branagh's mustache.

Nov 20, 2017

Murder on the Orient Express is nothing more serviceable.

Nov nineteen, 2017

Branagh's retelling of the classic Agatha Christie tale is visually sumptuous yet otherwise inert, a series of what are substantially cameos by performers far as well gifted to waste product their time like this.

Nov 16, 2017

While Branagh'due south revised version retains the basic elements, the mistakes he makes are numerous.

Nov 16, 2017

While information technology looked spectacular, the venture away from the confines of the railroad train detracted from the claustrophobia and the firsthand jeopardy present in Christie's novel and Lumet'southward version.

Nov fourteen, 2017

There's so much to like about the pic in theory: a sophisticated literary adaptation with a distinguished cast, geared toward grown-ups, just gently suggesting itself as a tentpole. But Branagh just can't find a tone that works.

Nov xiii, 2017

Contriving somehow both to dawdle and to rush, "Murder on the Orient Express" is handsome, undemanding, and almost wholly bereft of purpose.

Nov 10, 2017

The pic only goes on besides long, and is far also in love with Branagh's functioning.

November 10, 2017

[Kenneth Branagh] has made a creditable, merely by no ways outstanding, crack at filming a much-loved just extremely onetime-fashioned murder mystery.

Nov 10, 2017

Nevertheless, Branagh clearly has fun with the eccentric nature of the Poirot grapheme, whose gift of insight is a blessing when it comes to solving crimes but a expletive in its effects on his daily being.

Nov x, 2017

... the director still does Christie proud, his version of Murder on the Orient Limited a gorgeously widescreen old school mystery I'd happily watch again correct this second.

Nov 10, 2017

Murder on the Orient Limited is a whodunnit, but there's only really 1 mystery: Why is information technology so hard to care who done information technology?

Nov 10, 2017

To render to why Murder on the Orient Express was remade: Beats me. Maybe information technology'south someone'southward thought of counterprogramming when every other film in the multiplex is for kids or yahoos. Possibly it's a taxation shelter.

Nov 10, 2017

Whodunit? Who took the life of a famous murder mystery and left it dead on the screen? I accuse...managing director and star Kenneth Branagh.

Nov 10, 2017

In that location is too little levity and cleverness afoot, peculiarly with a bandage whose talent is barely tapped.

Nov 10, 2017

Throughout the newest version of Murder on the Orient Limited, you are on the outside, looking in, feeling unwelcome even when you desperately desire to join the party once information technology gets going.

November 10, 2017

Branagh fusses about with unusual camera angles, improbable outdoor settings and lame action sequences, anything to avoid getting on with the obvious, lining up a surfeit of suspects in the dining car and twisting the truth out of them.