gridoon2024 Review of Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019 TV Movie)

Plodding and very uninvolving

[4/10 · 7 May 2020]

First of all, I've got to wonder why Ruth Bradley, who played Agatha Christie in "The Truth Of Murder", was replaced: she had nailed the part. Lyndsey Marshal's Christie is a bit dowdy, and lacks Bradley's magnetism. As Max, the man who in real life became Christie's husband, Jonah Hauer-King is blandly handsome and nothing more; their on-screen attraction is not convincing at all. It is impossible to care about any of the people who appear in this movie, and, by extension, impossible to care about who done what. Easily one of the dullest Agatha-related projects I have ever watched. *1/2 out of 4.