Like always the original is better.

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2018)

Why they have to remake a movie if it is not to make it better than the original one is a mystery to me. The 1974 version of Murder On The Orient Express was better, there is no doubt about that, and it's not because we already knew the outcome now. This version looked all too dramatic to me, and even with big names as Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, or Michelle Pfeiffer, you don't get a better movie. Why they chose a British actor (Kenneth Branagh) to play the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is also something I can't understand and that I can't approve. There are enough good French or Belgian actors that can speak English that would do better with this role. Kenneth Branagh's French imitation accent is just not believable, certainly not for a Belgian like me. Agatha Christie's stories are just better as a book than as a movie, that's just a fact. This movie is just average, nothing special about it. The insinuation at the end of the movie that they would make another Agatha Christie movie (Death on the Nile) is something they should just forget about it.