David Suchet as Hercule Poirot; James D'Arcy as Derek Kettering; Jaime Murray as Ruth Kettering; Georgina Rylance as Katherine Grey; Lindsay Duncan as Lady Tamplin; Elliott Gould as Rufus Van Aldin The scriptwriters decided to change a few things about the relationship between the main characters,which were of paramount importance for the story's structure. life was going through with troubles and Ruth talked to Katherine. At the end, I couldn't give a damn for any one of the characters... Incredibly bad acting, weird accents, too many plots ending nowhere... Don't bother, unless you are a dye hard fan. Plus, the ways in which an enclosed space like a train effectively reduces the number of possible suspects is really interesting psychologically. Here, we got to see people actually act. I gave up when they discovered someone's long-lost mother in a mental hospital run by nuns. There were some great characters in this story. The beginning was romantic and mysterious. In fact it has torn up the book and replaced it with a lot of Great Stars with nothing to do but go "Look at me, I'm acting!" By the time I reached about the 100th page I doubted I could wait until the entrails of the last priest were available, dried and suitably braided for that excellent task, nor was I particularly fussed whether certain people were technically kings or not, fortunately for my blood pressure I avoided Downton Abbey when it was on, so I found a novel about toss pots behaving like toss pots close to unbearable, particularly as there was only the one death, [ and that not caused by irritable person with convenient chair in the library, [ as evidence for tongue-in-cheekness the breakthrough comes when, [ an informant tells the greatest detective in the world that the victim's ghost has revealed who the murderer is, the remainder then just the mere matter of finding evidence that might sway a jury or investigating magistrate or what have you, [ I guess they were famed for their crime resolving abilities, which must have been useful if Miss Marple happened to be too far away, [ it is rich person porn: fancy clothes, fancy trains, villas in the south of France, gentlemen can't be criminals and if they are ,certainly not violent ones, all very "Daily Mail". But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. Death on the Nile was the weakest of the last series also and hopefully the other Poirot production in the current season are better than the Mystery of the Blue Train. He doesn't know what to do. Elliot Gould is often stuck playing the same jovial part (which he does very well), but here also gets saddled with some emotional scenes, after the death of his character's daughter, and completely sells them. When the train stops, the jewel is missing, and the woman is found dead in her compartment. I wonder if this might not be that bad thing we were expecting. Welcome back. Georgina Rylance is sweet and alluring as Katherine, Lindsay Duncan is delightful and Jaime Murray is attractive enough as Ruth. })(); medianet_width = "300"; As several people have already pointed out, there are many changes from the book in this adaptation and not many of them are for the best. US industrial tycoon Rufus Van Aldin and his right hand Major Knighton tried everything to get suave British son-in-law Derek Kettering, an unfaithful gambling addict, to divorce his daughter Ruth, for whom he bough a priceless ruby with a bloody history. The whole thing looks beautiful and I, for one, was not especially put out at the direction or camera-work. Another very enjoyable entry in the Poirot series, the first third of this (which is before the detective makes his appearance) reminded me a lot of Patricia Highsmith and the theme did feel a bit more adult than in the preceding books. Of course, this isn't the first time Poirot is on a train where someone is murdered. Even though this is only partly set on a train, the scene of the crime and the circumstances of the murder worked as an interesting puzzle and I had a lot of fun trying to piece it all together! It's definitely not the best Christie novel overall, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless.

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