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bad. maybe okay if you don't have anything to compare it to.
I have read all of Agatha Christie's books. I LOVE Agatha Christie mysteries and many of the movies based on her stories. The David Suchet series. The Miss Marple series. The amazon version of Crooked House was very good.
I like John Malkovitch. I like Ruoert Grint.
I did not like this series.
I guess they tried to not go comedic Poirot like Murder on the Orient Express(which I also did not care for, but at least it was a straightforward telling with good effects), and some of the old series with David Suchet is a little campy, but dark and psychological thriller was maybe NOT the way to go. It just loses on so many levels.
Rupert was interesting to watch.
Malkovitch was painful; if I had seen this first I probably would have avoided anything else he'd even been in.
His accent is all over the place. Then the character has no "mustaches", no compassion, no humor or humanity, even his petty vanities which were endearing elsewhere are clunky here.
It's not horrible, it's just the worst of the adaptions, so, to me, who's probably seen them all, it's pretty bad.
February 2019 · Movies and TV