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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rooney, David

Titel

Death on the Nile

Ist Teil von

• Hollywood Reporter, 2022-02, Vol.427, p.71-71

Ort / Verlag

Hollywood: P-MRC

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Kenneth Branagh returns as Hercule Poirot - joined by Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer - in an Agatha Christie remake that's more stately than spry By David Rooney One of the questions asked by critics of Kenneth Branagh's 2017 Murder on the Orient Express remake was "Why?" While the Agatha Christie adaptation approximated the opulence of Sidney Lumet's 1974 original, the excitement of watching a stellar cast dressed in 1930s finery as a killer thins their ranks was muted by CG-heavy visuals and the intrusive self-infatuation of Branagh as sleuth Hercule Poirot. Returning from Branagh's Orient Express is Tom Bateman as Poirot's right-hand man, Bouc, whose marriage plans don't sit well with his artist mother, Euphemia. The sexual assault allegations against the actor have caused much nail-biting at Disney, with repeat shifts in the release date; while he was almost invisible in the trailer, there's no sign of his role being downsized in the final cut.