The follow-up story to Murder on the Orient Express takes all that was not so pleasant about its predecessor and downgrades it further, for Death on the Nile suffers from an overabundance of terribly sketched characters & hollow performances along with several other shortcomings that further bog down its seemingly promising narrative. Kenneth Branagh does have his fun in front & behind the camera but the lame execution, silly creative choices, overlong runtime, awful CGI, predictable twists & bland finale ultimately make this second entry in the Hercule Poirot whodunnit saga a forgettable outing.