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CRAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPP!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted 15 years ago by scrapmetal7
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Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express is one of my favorites, so when I ran across this Evil Under the Sun at the library, I remembered the commercials for it from my childhood and I snapped it up, but I'm halfway through it and am sorely disappointed. Despite a wonderful cast, this is just a rambling, pointless, boring mess. As much as I adore Ustinov, his performance simply predicts Steve Martin's Clousseau 20 years later. Fun actors like Roddy MacDowall, Diana Rigg or James Mason seem poorly used and stuffed into the blandest of roles.

Everyone else just acts like twits. By the time, almost an hour into the film, that someone is actually murdered, I honestly don't care who it is, or who did it, or why.

[–] Akzidenz_Grotesk 14 years ago

A touch of comedy does not make Ustinov's Hercule Poirot a bumbling Clousseau nor are the ensemble of familiar actors "poorly used". Have you ever read an Agatha Christie novel or enjoyed movies with suspense? Sounds like you're too impatient to appreciate a period mystery from a classic writer with light comedy and suspense despite your professed love of the"...Orient Express" film. Maybe you just liked Finney and not the genre.

My votes:http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=9422378

[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

Its not as good as Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express.

Its that man again!!