Death on the Nile (2022)


Death on the Nile is a 2022 mystery film directed by Kenneth Branagh from a screenplay by Michael Green, based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. It was produced by Branagh, Ridley Scott, Judy Hofflund, and Kevin J. Walsh. The film is a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Tom Bateman and Branagh returning from the first film as Bouc and Hercule Poirot, respectively. The film also stars Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, and Letitia Wright. The film is the third screen adaptation of Christie's novel, following the 1978 film and an episode of the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot broadcast in 2004. Principal photography began in September 2019, with filming taking place at Longcross Studios in England and on location in Morocco, completing that December.

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Death on the Nile (2022)

I love Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express (2017). I have a feeling that Kenneth had more prep time figuring out all the scenes he wanted in that movie.

I love the opening scene for Death on the Nile. 1914 Hercule's time in the Belgium army during WWI. Hercule back story was well done. (it explains his... moustache)

After that things started to get a little shaky.

Hollywood movies have this fear of seeming "not American" and I believe that could be why there is so much Blues music in this really dark storyline movie...

Gal Gadot plays Linnet Ridgeway and very VERY wealthy English Heiress. So from an audience point of view, shoving so much blue downmy throat... was a little odd...

Alot of characters from the book was axed or amalgamated into one character, so they can keep the casting cost down? (This movie has a budget is USD 90,000,000.

There really are some weird casting choices. Russell Brand as an aristocratic doctor?

I believe the biggest issue I had with this movie is Tom Bateman's lovable character Bouc, replaces the books's character Tim Allerton who is under his mother's thumb.

He was so lovable in Oriental Express that what happens to him was appalling...

I have watch the 1978 movie and after this movie, I have a feeling I liked that alot more then this. It was more true to Agathe's novel.

The world had gone through alot this two years, do we really need so grim a movie?

For me, no...

A shame, it is a gorgeous looking movie.

My Two Sen

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Feb 23 2022, 11:41 PM