A very poor adaptation

Rating: 4/10 (8 July 2018)

There are any number of unforgivable changes. The plot has been changed unnecessarily if not ultimately in any very material way, mostly it would seem to add drama, but in ways which wouldn't be needed if room had been given to more realistic and nuanced performances. The characterisation of Poirot himself is caricature to the point of pantomime. Christie's restrained and effective dialogue is almost all thrown out and replaced with bloated melodrama.