Remake of famous Agatha Christie story.

Rating: Null/10 (16 March 2018)

My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. In truth a highlight for me was in the VD "extras", old clips of Agatha Christie herself explaining her writing and where inspirations came from.
This is a sort of vanity project for Kenneth Branagh, directing and also starring as Hercule Poirot, a fictional character who is the best detective in the world. He sounds French but he is from Belgium where, near the French border, they speak French.
The term "Orient" has not meant the same thing in all historical times. Derived from the Latin it vaguely refers to places East of Europe. The Orient Express in this story is carrying mostly Brits and Europeans from Turkey to Calais for an eventual leg to England or Germany.
So Poirot and others board the train and at night a notorious man is found murdered. Poirot's task is to use all his detective skill to solve the murder. It is eventually solved but the real entertainment are the characters themselves. Agatha Christie stories aren't anymore what I suppose they were 70 or 80 years ago. Still the movie is appropriately entertaining.