I enjoy remakes

Rating: 7/10 (4 November 2019)

I enjoy remakes, perhaps that is why this movie was on my list to see ASAP. Hollywood has grabbed up the rights to many Agatha Christie books with varied success; Death on the Nile, The Mirror Cracked and the1974 production of Murder on the Orient Express, all beautifully done with a cast of Hollywood glamour stars of the era. I have them all in my library of classics. When the BBC produced the Hercule Poirot series I got addicted. The productions are movie length, made for television and David Suchet as Poirot is masterful. Suchet's version of Poirot in Orient Express should be considered definitive. The script is true to the book and deals with the story conflicts in a powerful way. Now for this most recent attempt... The cast is great but I need to agree with comments of other reviewers. It felt like a vanity piece and I can only say "Why?" David Suchet has already claimed that prize.