For a slow-boat river cruise, and a spluttery sort of movie, “Death on the Nile” covers a lot of territory, writes film critic phillipstribune.
by Christopher Plummer in “All the Money in the World”? Recut the picture to de-emphasize the Hammer character’s prominence?
In the 1937-set movie’s early scenes, inside a swank London blues joint, Branagh leans all in on sweaty, beady-eyed Simon Doyle , as he sweats up the dance floor, dirty-dancing with his intended, Lady Jacqueline . Seconds later, he’s introduced to his fiance’s friend, the fabulously rich Linnet Ridgeway . Poirot eyes this dangerous triangle in the making.
“Death on the Nile” takes some story risks that pay off rather well. Screenwriter Michael Green invents an origin tale of Poirot’s mustache, involving the future detective’s terrifying combat experience in the Belgian trenches during World War I. Green and Branagh rethink several characters, thus broadening the multiethnic range of what, as Christie originally wrote, was a blithe colonialist parade of luxury Anglo tourism and pasty-white skin.
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