A big expensive, star‐studded bore in which a lot of famous talent is permitted — no, encouraged — to do a series of campy turns on their own worst mannerisms.
Death on the Nile
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United Kingdom · 1978
Rated PG · 2h 20m
Director John Guillermin
Starring Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale, Lois Chiles
Genre Mystery
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On a luxurious cruise on the Nile River, a wealthy heiress is murdered. Fortunately, among the passengers is famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who immediately begins his investigation. But as Poirot begins to identify identify a motley collection of suspects, the suspects themselves begin to die, compounding the mystery.
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Washington Post by Gary Arnold
One of the worst ideas in Murder on the Orient Express was the repeated reenactment of the murder scene. Death on the Nile compounds this vulgarity by visualizing almost every speculation Poirot entertains about his fellow passengers. The redundancy of it all becomes ridiculous. [29 Sep 1978, p.D1]
Ustinov may not be the Poirot that we all think of now, after the David Suchet series, but this is pure Agatha Christie, steeped in nostalgia and atmosphere.
Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang
The performances remain delectable, the multiple murders startlingly bloody -- even the ones that are presented purely hypothetically. [02 Nov 2018, p.E4]
The New Yorker by Pauline Kael
The movie is fatally perfunctory about emotion, atmosphere, suspense. But if the overall effect is disappointing, from moment to moment the details are never less than engaging, and are often knobby and funny.
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