About What I Expected

Rating: 6/10 (23 February 2020)

I'm of the opinion that classic music no longer suits our modern world. I'm not saying Beethoven is bad music because an argument could be made that it is the best music ever composed. It's just that it isn't the music of today. Well, the version of Murder On the Orient Express is like that. It looks very good and the acting is tops, it's just a slow, unexciting movie. Today's audiences need to actually SEE the murder (if not the murderer) and watch the blood flow.
When the TV show Murder She Wrote went off the air it wasn't because it didn't have ample viewship. It was because those who tuned in were older and therefore not as susceptible to advertising. This Murder On the Orient Express was a contemporary, movie version of that phenomenon.