A decent adaptation that gets better as the film goes.

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2017)

I grew up with Christie's books and David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
The thing with "who don it" mysteries is that if you know the ending then your experience will differ from that who's seeing it for the first time.
Is this a decent adaptation of the book? Yes, they followed the plot and a lot of attention was paid to the little details to make it look like an actual train from the 1920's.
Up until the end the theater was full of murmurs "who did it? who was it then?" and even though I knew I was still interested in the movie till the end.
One thing that lowers this movie's score is Hercule Poirot himself. As a fan I know the character is a bit eccentric however here he was a full blown OCD with non-sense scenes
E.g. get the poor 6 year old to run half way across the city to get him eggs then insist on having them be equal in size and cooked for exactly 4 minutes then do it again because the eggs weren't just right... why? that just seemed cruel.
E.g. 2. have him stand on the roof of the train in a snowstorm ... just to show the scene, there was no reason for that scene at all.
The film gets better as you get past the "character intro" and onto the actual train however and Poirot is more himself then. Also I'm arab myself and I found the little bits of subtle humor in the first part actually cool and unexpected in an American movie.