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Dull - Death on the Nile review by cw

I enjoyed Murder on the Orient Express so expected to enjoy this. I didn't. Instead of sumptuous scenery there was poor CGI (maybe owing to shooting during lockdown, but if it's not possible to do it properly, don't do it). Few stars of any magnitude (as one expects with Agatha Christies). Hire French or hire Saunders (who was actually fairly good), but don't hire them both for the same film: it just makes you expect them to be funny and that's not what hey were there to do,. Overall it was dull. Those watching with me fell asleep.

Woke clap trap - Agatha Christie would turn in her grave!!! - Death on the Nile review by NF

It’s a real pity that such a fantastic novel has fallen to woke clap trap, with not even an interesting storyline . There were no black or coloured people in the original novel, and no token lesbians!!! I fell asleep after 1 1/2 hours, so was spared the last 37 mins! 

Come on Kenneth Branagh ….you can do better than this on a brilliant novel !!!

Definitely give it a miss !! Go and watch cricket or fishing for 2 hours….it’ll be more interesting !!! 

The Ultimate Disappointment - Death on the Nile review by AS

How Kenneth Branagh managed to allow himself to be sucked into present day Hollywood's mediocrity and woke nonsense is baffling. The script is so bad and the characters so wooden that it might have been written by high school teenagers. I suppose we should be grateful that they did not find a way to reveal that one or more of the players were transgender.

I had previously enjoyed Branagh's version of the Murder on the Orient Express, with all its eccentric variations on the original story. But the comic book standard of the distortions applied to Christie's Death on the Nile story is little short of appalling.

The only positive in the film is some stunningly beautiful photography.

In Denial - Plot holes hinder the enjoyment - Death on the Nile review by AER

Sadly a gigantic plot hole and some narrative inconsistencies sink Kenneth Branagh's lavish adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on The Nile. I wonder if the same plot holes exist in the source novel. I won't share what they are because I don't want to put spoilers in.

Kenneth Branagh's other recent film as director, Belfast, is vastly superior and a lot more honest than this corny follow up to his Murder on the Orient Express (which was also more enjoyable)....

I wish some of the other 'reviewers' would stop piggybacking their right-wing racist/homophobic views about 'wokeness' into their reviews of this fairly innocuous movie....

3.5 out of 10

Fantastic plot and visuals - Poirot at his best! - Death on the Nile review by giantrolo

We really enjoyed this film! The plot was an interesting one, the film was beautifully shot and the cast was fantastic. It was also an unexpected pleasure to find out that French and Saunders were in it!! Definitely recommended for anyone looking to keep their little grey cells stimulated!

Lush, incongruous and feeble - Death on the Nile review by RD

There's a first long scene of the trenches in 1914 which doesn't introduce the film or give you any idea of what's to be expected. This is then followed by a lengthy nightclub scene many years later, again slightly odd with it's Sister Rosetta Tharp blues content (great music but incongruous) and its outrageously overt sexual dancing (again incongruous and highly unlikely for 1937).

At this point the two of us were were wondering when the plot was going to arrive, and what was this film all about. Not a good start to any film.

Then at long last the action arrived in Egypt, with some very odd and perplexing scenes before the film and plot got going - at last. The dialogue is thin and short for the whole film, giving no understanding or development of the weak characters, and so the film dragged on like this until the end. Someone killed someone just about sums up the interest here. Each scene seems to be padded out too much so that any pace of the plot is dragged down on a regular basis.

By contrast the filming is excellent, the music and sound effects likewise, so there's good technical quality to the film, although the over-used computer generated effects become very obvious and wearisome, and unfortunately add to the overblown nature of the whole film.

Kenneth Branagh's interpretation of Poirot is also incongruous in that it is novel and understated, which would come over much better were it to be put into a less pretentious and feeble film.

A troubled Poirot - Death on the Nile review by IP

The settings and photography were excellent, and the story was competently told, but I did not enjoy this depiction Poirot's character as much as that of previous actors who have played the role.