Death on the Nile (2022)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 127m
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Gal Gadot, Sophie Okonedo, Emma Mackey, Armie Hammer
Synopsis:
1937: Poirot is dragged into the elaborate murder plot that ensues when a wealthy heiress steals her penniless lover boy away from an old school friend and they take their honeymoon in Egypt, where the detective is holidaying.
Review:
As with his Orient Express remake, Branagh provides a cheerfully old-fashioned entertainment which plays similarly fast and loose with its sources (in this case a 1978 film derived from the Christie original). The locations, none of which was filmed anywhere near Egypt, provide a ravishing backdrop to the action, and though the logic behind the positively Shakespearian accumulation of murders is anything but implacable, the central performance and general air of luxury make for escapism of every possible kind.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 127m
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Gal Gadot, Sophie Okonedo, Emma Mackey, Armie Hammer
Synopsis:
1937: Poirot is dragged into the elaborate murder plot that ensues when a wealthy heiress steals her penniless lover boy away from an old school friend and they take their honeymoon in Egypt, where the detective is holidaying.
Review:
As with his Orient Express remake, Branagh provides a cheerfully old-fashioned entertainment which plays similarly fast and loose with its sources (in this case a 1978 film derived from the Christie original). The locations, none of which was filmed anywhere near Egypt, provide a ravishing backdrop to the action, and though the logic behind the positively Shakespearian accumulation of murders is anything but implacable, the central performance and general air of luxury make for escapism of every possible kind.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 127m
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Gal Gadot, Sophie Okonedo, Emma Mackey, Armie Hammer
Synopsis:
1937: Poirot is dragged into the elaborate murder plot that ensues when a wealthy heiress steals her penniless lover boy away from an old school friend and they take their honeymoon in Egypt, where the detective is holidaying.
Review:
As with his Orient Express remake, Branagh provides a cheerfully old-fashioned entertainment which plays similarly fast and loose with its sources (in this case a 1978 film derived from the Christie original). The locations, none of which was filmed anywhere near Egypt, provide a ravishing backdrop to the action, and though the logic behind the positively Shakespearian accumulation of murders is anything but implacable, the central performance and general air of luxury make for escapism of every possible kind.