It's pretty entertaining during its second act but the odd opening and contrived finale let it down.

Rating: 6/10 (5 November 2017)

The second act stuff on the train is actually rather well done for the most part, with the dialogue-driven detective 'leg-work' of 'Murder On The Orient Express (2017)' being fairly interesting if a little convenient, but unfortunately the surrounding material is relatively contrived and oddly clichéd, with Poirot occasionally coming across more like Guy Ritchie's version of Sherlock Holmes - complete with almost clairvoyant levels of 'deduction', especially in his few extremely out of place action sequences - than a portly and particular Belgian; the ending is especially disappointing, though this is a fault with the source story more than the flick itself, and leaves things seeming rather empty after its ham-fisted attempt at both haphazardly starting and completing an arc for its perfectionist protagonist, though it doesn't quite sour the film's finer moments - which still shine through the muddy mess that this finale transforms the narrative into - and can't quite ruin what was mostly an intriguing and entertaining journey. 6/10