Poirot - Death on the Nile
by Andy Wilson (IV)
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Actor: David Suchet, Emily Blunt, Emma Griffiths Malin, James Fox, JJ FeildDirector: Andy Wilson (IV)
Brand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- When Linnet Doyle, the richest woman in London, steals and marries her best friend's fianc , the best friend gets her revenge by hounding the newlyweds throughout their honeymoon. A subsequent pleasure cruise down the River Nile turns deadly when the widely despised Mrs. Doyle is found murdered in bed. Thank goodness the famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is along for the ride. His service
DVD Reviews of Poirot - Death on the Nile
DVD Review: An unnecessary remake of the big budget film masterpiece
Summary: 3 Stars
This reviewer considers the original 1978 British film; "Murder on the Orient Express"; and "The Last of Sheila"; as the three best mystery films ever made. Both the 1978 version and this A&E remake follow the basic plot of the novel but take liberties with the details: Characters are combined or omitted; dialog is drastically revised; lesser circumstances are changed.
This A&E remake is not bad, simply disappointing. The opening sex scene and cocaine use are uncalled-for non-Christie fabrications. Material from the novel's opening pages is confusingly sandwiched in or passed by altogether: The initial Southwood scene from the novel (omitted in the 1978 original) is a plus, but gutting Andrew Pennington's background is a serious minus. The dining-room conversation between Poirot and Salome Otterbourne about the other passengers is annoyingly incomplete. Making each passenger a suspect with motive and opportunity is absent. When the story finally gets rolling, one struggles with a muddled conglomeration of characters of unknown motives. But can more be expected with only 97 minutes, a modest budget, and the respect shown the novel's complexities?
These problems were avoided in the original film (140 delicious - and expensive - minutes). The novel's fragmented opening pages were given considerable embellishment and cinematic continuity by folks with very fertile imaginations who were very much in the spirit of things. Poetic license with the characters and their motives was taken to produce a film that SHOWS, not just TELLS: One SEES the clever portrayal of Linnet stealing Simon away from Jackie. One SEES the deception planned by Linnet and Simon to escape Jackie on the ship cruise. One SEES Poirot's shipboard wine bottle being drugged. One SEES each shipboard character's motivations for becoming a major suspect. One SEES how each suspect could commit the murder(s), acted out front and center! That film represented movie making at its finest, employing the full cinematic potential of the novel.
Peter Ustinov made an excellent Poirot in the original, suitably nuanced to fit his personality and physique (see the making-of special feature included on that DVD). Here, the performance of David Suchet (who has become the archetypal Poirot through the sheer volume and force of his past performances), while adequate, is much too serious and lacks the light-hearted flourishes afforded by imaginative direction that so endears his character in other adaptations. Emma Malin turns in a modestly OK performance as Jacqueline de Bellefort (though not approaching that of Mia Farrow's). Frances de la Tour does well as Salome Otterbourne (outrageously and hilariously portrayed by Angela Lansbury in the original). The other (unknown) actors' characterizations are undistinguished.
The DVD's (4x3) picture quality and sound are good. The cinematography is above average for TV productions, but is no match for the big budget original's magnificent wide-screen presentation with elaborate studio sets created to support it. The A&E sound-track is unnecessarily intrusive, loud music becoming a substitute for character emotions and acting. At one point the music almost overwhelms even the conversation. (What is it with these technicians anyway? Do they ever actually review what they put together?)
You think the crime has not been committed here? You put rather the anger on this reviewer, the no gloves of kid words, the three stars, nes pa? Consider well, mon ami. Would you rather such finite efforts (make not the mistake, they ARE finite) be squandered on unnecessary remakes or used for brand-new, never-before-filmed Poirot-Hastings-Japp-Lemon adventures? You like that A&E spend more FINITE RESOURCES on second-class remake of, say, the Murder on Orient Express? Le crime, il est partout!
Description of Poirot - Death on the Nile
Tony Award nominee David Suchet returns to his celebrated role as Hercule Poirot in a lavish A&E adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic--DEATH ON THE NILE. When Linnet Doyle, the richest woman in London, steals and marries her best friend's fiancé, theBestsellers in DVD
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