‘Death on the Nile’ review: Another brutally murdered whodunit
nypost.comMurder on the Orient Express,” a miserable, poorly cast, sleepy take on the author’s most famous novel. Bad on its own terms, the film was made even worse by the fact that Sidney Lumet’s superb 1974 version, starring Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman and Albert Finney, is a screen classic.Running time: 127 minutes.
Rated PG-13 (violence, some bloody images, and sexual material). In theaters Feb. 11.Now comes TheMysteryof “Death on the Nile,” based on another of Christie’s top titles.
The film is set during an Egyptian river cruise, on which a new wife (Gal Gadot) begs famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh) to come along because she believes her husband’s unhinged ex is stalking her.
A killing takes place onboard, and it’s up to Poirot to catch the fiend before it’s too late.Branagh has killed again. He’s once again taken a perfect whodunit and mangled it beyond recognition into some sort of a mummified thriller.
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