Poirot - Evil Under the Sun
by Brian Farnham
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Actor: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Michael Higgs, Pauline Moran, Philip JacksonDirector: Brian Farnham
Brand: A and E Home Video
Producer: Brian Eastman
Producer: Delia Fine
Producer: Kris Slava
Producer: Phil Clymer
Producer: Simon Crawford Collins
Writer: Agatha Christie
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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DVD Review: "Mesdames et messieurs, we have all come here to this hotel for the reasons of health, exercise, for the holiday and for murder"
Summary: 4 Stars
Just as Ronald Colman was the best Bulldog Drummond and Rudolf Rassendyll, Colin Firth was the best Mr. Darcy (sorry, Mr. Olivier) or, getting closer to the genre, just as the late great Jeremy Brett made the ideal Sherlock Holmes, David Suchet has become the definitive Hercule Poirot. Suchet has earned this place by virtue of his very good acting and his longevity in the role. Case in point, even though I liked Peter Ustinov in his many turns as Poirot, I feel that David Suchet's version is superior. Suchet simply puts it down perfect as the prissy but astute little Belgian sleuth. In comparison and even though Poirot does favor affected mannerisms, Ustinov's take seems couched in even more over-the-top conceits.
In EVIL UNDER THE SUN, when Poirot keels over at his friend Capt. Hasting's Argentinian restaurant, he is diagnosed with being medically obese. Recommended to undertake a "strict regime of diet and exercise, sunshine and the sea," Poirot is booked passage to the health resort island of Sandy Cove, accompanied by Hastings. But, even on forced holiday, Poirot's little grey cells are constantly churning away. So, in the confines of a seaside paradise, he senses and tries to avert an imminent crime, but fails. Under the afternoon sun, a strangled body is found on the beach, of an actress doomed to die. Poirot must work out the vagaries of a puzzling timetable and air-tight alibis and sift thru sordid doings ranging from indiscreet flirtations to drug smuggling, from a long harbored revulsion to typical jealousies and blackmail. As the investigations unfold, the odd little Belgian suspects that not only is the murderer extremely cunning and devilish, but that he had certainly killed before.
Naturally, near everyone is a suspect, including a most intense ex-vicar, a troubled sixteen-year-old, and even an athletic spinster. While Ustinov's Evil Under the Sun is entertaining, its all-star casting exudes a certain neck-craning, celebrity-watching feel. Suchet's version acquaints us with little known actors who seem to be more suited to their supporting roles (and who also aren't too big of a name for their roles). I've gone thru pretty much all of Christie's Poirot mysteries, but it's been years since I read EVIL UNDER THE SUN, and I've forgotten how very cleverly the murder was committed. I used to read quite a lot of mystery novels and I've always held that Agatha Christie is one of the most diabolical practitioner in the genre. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection), And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries), and Curtain (Hercule Poirot) are particularly awesome in terms of the resolution to their respective mysteries.
Hercule Poirot belongs to that niche which features the more atypical detectives. Poirot, like Nero Wolfe, Father Brown, or the Old Man in the Corner, aren't lean, mean men of action. Agatha Christie writes her fastidious little Belgian with a waxed mustache, a mincing walk, and a certain smug air about him. Yet, somehow, she's always made him lovable. EVIL UNDER THE SUN isn't the best of Suchet's work as Poirot, but it'll still do very nicely. So mull over the motives, fight thru the red herrings, and see if your own little grey cells can figure it out (I was stumped years ago) before Poirot demonstrates yet again that, well-bred and -mannered and posh though they may be, the English can murder with the best of them.
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