Snoooooooooze

Rating: 3/10 (4 December 2017)

I had neither read the book nor viewed the previous big-screen adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express" prior to seeing the 2017 version in the theater. The preview made it look suspenseful.
It truly was not suspenseful. Granted, I went to the 9:30 PM showing, but I nodded off out of boredom no less than twice during the movie. It started off rather promisingly, but the actual murder scene was droll and the investigation consisted of an hour of interviewing stock characters repeatedly.
This comes off as a low-rent, uneventful Sherlock Holmes rip. It does have a good look about it, but the star-studded cast is wasted upon the aforementioned stock characters. As Presented, Poirot himself is just not interesting enough to carry a movie. The audience is shown that he is a great detective, but not shown a reason to care.
To top it off, the "twist" at the end is entirely unsatisfying.