Excellent Production Values

Rating: 9/10 (20 February 2018)

This is the third version of Murder on the Orient Express I have seen, I have seen the Albert Finney version, the David Suchet (TV movie version) and this Branagh version. All had different prologues and minor plot variations, (for instance in Istanbul Suchet (as Poirot) witnesses and fails to act as local man kills his wife for adultery and suffers a crisis of conscience, in the Branagh version, it is solving the mystery of a stolen religious icon. In the 2017 version, the scenery, photography and digital work is breathtaking. Also there is more gun play in the 2017 version, which I found rather disconcerting in a classic British parlor mystery. A good watch.