Full disclosure - David Suchet fan. I even liked the Peter Ustinov version and really wanted to like this version too. But this was dragged version relying on star power to drive the movie.
The characters were a deviation from the book, but that is okay - every version needs to adapt as they see fit. However, the crux of all Agatha Christie/Hercule Poirot stories is the meticulous unraveling of the plot by Poirot - with explanations of events that leads to the deduction(s). And of course a dramatic build up.
Here the plot/mystery is revealed in less than a minute rather dismissively as if they were tired of making the movie and wanted to end it all.
The characters were a deviation from the book, but that is okay - every version needs to adapt as they see fit. However, the crux of all Agatha Christie/Hercule Poirot stories is the meticulous unraveling of the plot by Poirot - with explanations of events that leads to the deduction(s). And of course a dramatic build up.
Here the plot/mystery is revealed in less than a minute rather dismissively as if they were tired of making the movie and wanted to end it all.