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Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express (2010)
Episode 3, Season 12
Possibly the worst of the series
1 September 2013 - 13 out of 24 users found this review helpful.
It seems to me that neither the director, Philip Martin, the screenplay writer Stewart Harcourt, nor David Suchet himself quite understood the book or Agatha Christie's point. In particular, after all his sterling work as Poirot over the years, Suchet should have known better how Poitot would feel and behave. When a director departs so far from the original story, with so little comprehension of his main character, he must expect criticism.
A major disappointment to Suchet's Poirot fans, and I am one. I echo the other reviewer's comments about Albert Finney's 1974 version: superior in all respects, except, in my judgment, for the main theme music, which was poor at best and failed to capture the glamor and grandeur of the Orient Express.
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