Critic Reviews for Murder On The Orient Express. Overall Murder on the Orient Express is a worthwhile bit of fun. Kenneth Branagh both directs and stars as iconic Families can talk about Murder on the Orient Express's violence.

Would you like to write a review? The movie is based on a book, that tells the story of a investigation that happened in a train, when everybody is a suspect. During a trip, that one of the best detectives of the world is in, a murder occur.

Murder on the Orient Express

Ever since seeing the trailer for the mystery thriller "Murder on the Orient Express," a question has been nagging at you. It's not who among a diverse array of actors including Judi Dench as a Russian princess, Willem Dafoe as a German professor, Penelope Cruz as a depressed missionary. But the greatest waste in Murder on the Orient Express is its remarkable but woefully underused cast, who are each given little more than a glorified cameo. And still the movie does not have the decency to end, dragging us through a ruthlessly ragged resolution. A risky murder, given that Ratchett's murder occurred right next to Poirot's bunk, but what are you gonna do? Poirot works doggedly to solve this puzzle, wherein.

Trailer Murder on the Orient Express

The movie is an excellent whodunit and concerns upon one murder in the Orient Express train with Hercules Poirot (Albert Finney) as sleuth-man to solve it. The runtime movie is overlong : two hours and some but isn't slow-moving and is amount amusing for suspense and tension. In my early teens I saw the then-grand movie adaptation, an all-star cast affair directed by Sidney Lumet and featuring Albert Finney.

When a freak avalanche forces the Orient Express to stop on a precarious (and breathtakingly cinematic) stretch of track, Poirot finds the time to interview Director: Kenneth Branagh. Screenplay: Michael Green, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Branagh, who also stars as the mustachioed detective Hercule Poirot, has a keen eye for. Rather than a shocking twist, Murder on the Orient Express concludes with an ending which feels No, definitely not.