Murder on the Orient Express - Spoiler Free Review

Rating: 5/10 (14 September 2018)

A cast full of A-listers isn't enough to save this movie that frankly should just not exist. By staying fairly faithful to the original source material, the movie renders its own existence fairly pointless, as this is clearly made for fans of the original...people who already know how this ends, which really is the only thing this movie would have had going for it in the first place. All and all, this two-hour movie somehow comes across as a Reader's Digest version of a story we already know, taking its time, but somehow also feeling incredibly rushed at the same time. Nowhere near as good as the original, and as it's still playing off in the same time-frame, you can't exactly say it's been updated for modern audiences either, therefore again making me ask the question, what was the point of this? Maybe give the novel a try, instead.