http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/hard-boiled-poirot-murders-orient-express/ The great ones are back in action. Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/hard-boiled-poirot-murders-orient-express/comment-page-1/#comment-1515 Tracy Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:42:55 +0000 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/?p=3066#comment-1515 I was very, very disappointed with the Suchet “Orient Express.” Rather than a complex puzzle about whodunnit — which is what the original tale is really about — it’s instead Poirot being moody, other characters being annoying, murderers being actively evil as opposed to acting out of a sense of thwarted justice.
I thought the star power of the Finney film worked in its favor by making the various suspects stand apart more. With a dozen possible murderers, it can be really hard for the movie audience to remember who is who, but nobody mixes up Vanessa Redgrave and Ingrid Bergmann!

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