agreed, this is really weak.

Disagree, this is really good - if you are not half-asleep when watching it. Watching it as a straight whodunnit is of course not special.

But if you are familiar with the older movies based on Agatha-Christie-novels, you should be able to see all the references, the cliches, the rules and how they are broken - most of this movie is "meta".

@jw said:

Disagree, this is really good - if you are not half-asleep when watching it. Watching it as a straight whodunnit is of course not special.

But if you are familiar with the older movies based on Agatha-Christie-novels, you should be able to see all the references, the cliches, the rules and how they are broken - most of this movie is "meta".

I agree - very meta. But disagree - it wasn't really good. I got the overall tone of the film and what they were trying to do, but felt the whole film lacked something.

The one thing I did like was Saoirse Ronan's character and her banter with Sam Rockwell (albeit in his rather weak English accent IMO)