Shame on Branagh - ruined an excellent story

Rating: 6/10 (14 December 2017)

It is a shame the way this was directed, the first 20 min has some overacting and some scenes that don´t really match the style of the rest of the film, out of place and weird. Branagh is unable to film anything that is not from his own culture and it also has to take place in his own country, and here he has an international cast and action in a foreign country - that apparently brings some serious problems problems. A cast full of stars with Christie´s story should bring crowds to the cinema and what does bring instead is pure disappointment. Add a ridiculous, very distracting mustache on the main character (what is the point of doing that? such a stupid decision), some unnecessary scenes, pointless conversations here and there making this kind of boring - Poirot starts an interview in German but he turns to English after 2 sentences, it makes no sense, but it is kind of what happens with the entire movie, the first part seems to take one direction then it turns into another. No surprises why the average IMDB rating is so mediocre - avoid it, wait for the next film version of this novel or watch the classic film with this same name from 1974 by Lumet - he knew how to do this.