Very disappointed. Yet another relatively recent jumping on the band-wagon of using Agatha Christie's name to pull in audiences, only to either butcher the original story into oblivion so it is unrecognisable or using Agatha herself as the sleuth to avoid copyright issues with Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot.
The sets were the only decent thing about the film.
The score was sometimes intrusive and jarring and did not enhance the mood the visual was trying to achieve, which was distracting.
Hauer-King's acting was rather wooden and his period accent not at all credible; in fact the film's 1920s vernacular was too modern in general - note to TOM DALTON - have you read any Agatha Christies, or books of that period? If you had, you would realise that people did not, for example, say things like "Call the police" or "Excuse me?" when Agatha was interrupted by the train guard speaking to her in Arabic? Most British people wouldn't use that Americanism, even today! If you don't want to do this, then set it in the present day.
I know it is only a TV film, but how on earth did it even get the green light to go into production and release, one wonders...?!
The sets were the only decent thing about the film.
The score was sometimes intrusive and jarring and did not enhance the mood the visual was trying to achieve, which was distracting.
Hauer-King's acting was rather wooden and his period accent not at all credible; in fact the film's 1920s vernacular was too modern in general - note to TOM DALTON - have you read any Agatha Christies, or books of that period? If you had, you would realise that people did not, for example, say things like "Call the police" or "Excuse me?" when Agatha was interrupted by the train guard speaking to her in Arabic? Most British people wouldn't use that Americanism, even today! If you don't want to do this, then set it in the present day.
I know it is only a TV film, but how on earth did it even get the green light to go into production and release, one wonders...?!