My favourite version.

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2017)

After my disappointment with David Suchet's version, I went to see this with a little trepidation. However, I was bowled away with this. The cinematography is breathtaking, Johnny Depp's excellently portrayed Ratchett is truly a horrible man, and the rest of the cast are just as superb. I particularly liked Judi Dench and Olivia Coleman as Princess Dragomiroff and her maid Hildegard Schmidt. For me, the key elements of the plot were all true to the novel and while a lot of changes had been made I felt they'd enhanced the film. I actually got quite emotional at the point where the full story is revealed and we discover what really happened. And while David Suchet's 'tache might be closer to Ms Christie's description, anyone who's ever seen Belgian entrants to moustache competitions will realise Kenneth Branagh's 'tache is very Belgian. This is now my favourite version of the story.