PeterRS Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 Kenneth Branagh has something that draws him to Agatha Christie. I only saw Murder on the Orient Express and loathed all the fake cg effects. I deliberately did not see Death on the Nile. Now he is back with another movie "based" on a Christie story titled A Haunting in Venice. From the review in today's Guardian, it sounds pretty awful. "With each new Branagh/Poirot movie I have sat down for some guilty-pleasure fun, and he always brings to the part a basic level of sprightly energy. But each time I have been disappointed by the trudging inertia that sets in – and here by the false-ending, fake-reveal moments which the movie just breezes through, and also by the criminal waste of the supporting cast." https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/10/a-haunting-in-venice-review-branaghs-agatha-christie-whodunnit-given-horror-makeover tm_nyc 1 Quote
alvnv Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 At least he moved on from Shakespeare Quote
Members JKane Posted September 29, 2023 Members Posted September 29, 2023 It was better than Death on the Nile, but that's saying little. Quote
a-447 Posted September 29, 2023 Posted September 29, 2023 I walked out, as did quite a few other patrons. Quote