Yet another crap adaptation of a Christie story. John Malkovitch was Ok if a trifle too subdued in the part - I prefer him to most other Poirots except David Suchet. In this incarnation Poirot was never a Gendarme - he was a priest !! I felt that the entire cast were simply dressed up in clothes of the era - it had no other sense of the period it was set in and the final dialogue was endless and pointless and glossed over the means by which somebody knew when Poirot had tea in a certain café many years ago or how he delivered a baby at a one off stop 19 years previously. "A little detective work" does not make that possible. The Christie Estate should hang their heads in shame for allowing this kind of rubbish to be filmed as a Christie vehicle - but then cash knows no loyalty.
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Reply by wonder2wonder
on December 29, 2018 at 9:20 PM
I fear much worse is to come. And that'll probabily happen in the future adaptation of other stories.
The sad thing is that it appears the Agatha Christie Estate has wholeheartedly given its stamp of approval to any changes that the writer feels should be made to prove her superior writing skills compared to the original author.
Reply by Strange Bedfellows
on December 30, 2018 at 5:38 AM
This writer is arrogant beyond belief - I don't know why she is employed to adapt stories from an era she has no empathy with or indeed a writer she has no empathy with. You cannot drag Agatha Christie into EastEnders - it doesn't work. The era most of her work is set in has a charm of its own and is a welcome relief from the graphic sex and violence of more modern authors. This writer has a vast body of work - I wonder how she would feel if some inferior hack changed all of her work under the banner of modernisation. I won't be watching any further adaptations by this "writer" and I reiterate my disgust at the Agatha Christie Estate for betraying a sacred trust. I have just read the responses of this writer to her critics - it says it all. It also says it all that she will not be writing the next one !!!
Reply by Benedict
on January 12, 2019 at 7:53 PM
I have to say I agree. This was gratuitous rubbish. There's nothing wrong with macabre and graphic trappings if it has a relevance and purpose to the story (see Jonathan Creek), but this was just shocking for the sake of it, to pander to the Game of Thrones audience who want blood and sex, and the weirder and more twisted the better. I could have at least tolerated that if the plot stood up to scrutiny or made even a shred of sense, but instead, as you write, the key bits of genuine intrigue are left unsolved, and the motive of the murderer is farcical. Such a disappointment.