{"id":41657,"date":"2024-12-26T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41657"},"modified":"2024-12-26T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T15:13:15","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/12\/26\/belated-movie-reviews-876\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I will get you and your little dog, too!<\/em> Oooops, wrong script. “Uh…. To go where no<\/em> …. darn it, too many scripts! Script-boy! Bring me all the scripts labeled Mustache<\/strong><\/em>!”<\/p><\/div>\n

Murder on the Orient Express<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2017) is a film adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie novel, a lovely, if unrealistic – train cars are not that wide – retelling of the story of vengeance wreaked upon a narcissist, perhaps even a solipsist<\/a>, for the kidnapping and killing of a baby by those with a connection to the victim, and how an injustice such as the heretofore unpunished murder of the child, and the shared murder of the perpetrator, troubles Christie’s famed Hercules Poirot.<\/p>\n

This is the Kenneth Branagh version, based on a screenplay by Michael Green.<\/p>\n

There is little to criticize here – oh, but that mustache!<\/strong> – and a lot to admire. The moral questions explored in this tale are, in my limited experience with the Christie canon, far more salient than most of her stories; perhaps Mr Green or Mr Branagh enhanced the original story, which I have not read, to bring them out. If so, this is welcome.<\/p>\n

We enjoyed this version quite a lot, and if you enjoy murder mysteries, you will, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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