Enjoyable :)

Rating: 7/10 (9 November 2017)

I must admit, I have no familiarity with any of Agatha Christie stories and have never seen the original of this film so I am coming at this review from the angle of a complete Poirot 'newbie' but I really enjoyed the film. I thought the cast was superb and to me, it felt like a proper 'film' rather than a clichéd 'who dunnit' type movie where you don't actually care what happened if you're honest. I liked the back-story and how things twisted and turned and I thought Kenneth was fabulous as Poirot....he is one of my favourite actors though and I'd like him in anything but jackoby and Depp were both also very good as was Dame Judi Dench. It wasn't the most action packed movie I've ever seen and I do wish that the audience could have been given more in the way of evidence and time to work things out for ourselves as I did feel Poirot kind of got to the bottom of things based on intuition rather than evidence which gave us the audience no hope in getting there first! Other than that though it was superb and I enjoyed it beginning to end, I felt genuinely choked up at the end and this is not something that happens a lot with me. Well done all x