Boring

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Kenneth Branagh's effort is brilliant. Most freelance red but monkey critics don't get that the British Army has a Navy.

Wow...kind of unusual that I would be so at odds with most of the reviews, here. But I LOVED this remake! I do have to admit...I wasn't the biggest fan of the 1974 version, so maybe that's why. And it's not that I just reject older Agatha Christie movies. I loved Death on the Nile (1978), and Evil Under the Sun (1982). But this remake was beautifully shot, well written, and DIDN'T move at a seemingly glacial pace, which is something that occasionally annoys me about a lot of early 70's films. I love film from every time period, but seriously...I think the popularity of quaaludes had an obviously quantifiable effect on the films of the 70's. Everything was soooooooo drawn out and kind of boring. And washed out, color-wise. Yes, yes, I know I'm going to catch a ton of s**t about this. Anyway, I thought the actors did a fine job, and I especially have to single out Branagh for his take on Hercule Poirot (and his directing!). I would never have believed anyone could replace Peter Ustinov in my heart as Poirot, but he made the character his own. He went with a more serious, more complex and tortured, more inward-looking Poirot, instead of the quippy, sassy, amused and amusing Poirot that Ustinov gave us...which is not to say Branagh's Poirot was humorless..."Forgive me, I am Belgian" had me laughing out loud. It was an interesting choice, and a smart one, in my humble opinion. I absolutely cannot wait to see him in Death on the Nile (if the hint of a sequel at the end of this film is portentous)!!!

I am a huge fan of the 1974 Sidney Lumet version. Even if you already knew what was going to occur, Lumet managed to create tension and drama by utilizing an excellent cast and pacing of the plot. The David Suchet version is also exceptionally well done and is a 1b to Lumet's 1a in my opinion. What made these adaptations so good was that they were more or less loyal adaptions to Christie's novel and managed to capture the spirit of the original story. So when I heard that a remake of this movie had been done, I initially refused to see it. Far too many classics have been recently remade and most have been disappointing or downright awful. I wish I had stuck to my original decision.Alas, I found it on one of the premium movie channels and I could not resist the temptation. I knew that we were in trouble early on when Branagh (whom I usually like very much i.e. Dunkirk) decided to play Poirot not as the dandy that ANYONE who is familiar with this classic character knows him to be. It is like taking James Bond and making him a pacifist.Then there are the goofy camera angles. What is the point of the shots that literally only show the TOP of the character's head? What the hell is he doing on top of the train? Ugh. The casting. What a waste of a good cast. Here is a clue for you scriptwriters. When you dramatically change the characters, you dramatically change the script. The story begins to morph into something that is completely unrecognizable. This is definitely the case with this movie. The characters do things that are completely incomprehensible and only adds to the confusion. The classic "reveal" scene at the end of the movie falls completely flat. Here is a suggestion to all of you movie moguls. Instead of butchering classic versions of movies (Murder on Orient, Magnificent Seven, Poseidon Adventure, Ben-Hur, etc etc.) why don't you take some of the mediocre or above average stories of the past and try to IMPROVE on them. If you feel compelled to remake a classic, at least try to be loyal to the original movie and material. After all, we call them classics for a reason.

I've read the book and enjoyed the 1974 version multiple times, but this remake is simply horrible. Much was made of that 1974 mustache and this time they really try to make it into a spider - so in other words too much of it. Sometimes it's just that je ne sais quoi as to why it's worse, but this time it is as plain as the nose on your face. I could go on to give numerous failures, but just look at all the reviews that nail it.