Death on the Nile
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot boards a glamorous river steamer with enough champagne to fill the Nile. But his Egyptian vacation turns into a thrilling search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
- Released: 2022-02-09
- Runtime: 127 minutes
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Letitia Wright, Armie Hammer, Annette Bening, Ali Fazal, Sophie Okonedo, Tom Bateman, Emma Mackey, Dawn French, Rose Leslie, Jennifer Saunders, Russell Brand, Adam Garcia, Rick Warden, John Wolfe, George Jaques, Victor Alli, Jonah Rzeskiewicz, James Schofield, Susannah Fielding, Michael Rouse, Alaa Safi, Orlando Seale, Charlie Anson, Danny Hughes, Sam James Page, Eleanor de Rohan, Noel White, Niamh Lynch, Rosie Dwyer, Nari Blair-Mangat, Sid Sagar, Brenda-Jane Newhouse, Rhiannon Clements, Daniel Cook, Heider Ali, Hayat Kamille, Crispin Letts, Rachel Feeney, Sarah Eve, Aron Julius, Francis Lovehall, Stacy Abalogun, Naveed Khan, Katie Smale, Kemi Awoderu, Lauren Alexandra, Nikkita Chadha, Nadine Leon Gobet
- Director: Kenneth Branagh
Comments
- Calvin-26 - 2 June 2024
probably the most out of character Poirot
For somebody who has read this or other Agatha Christie novels, this film is just horrible to watch. The whole first half an hour is just wrong : Hercule Poirot was not a soldier in WWI, he was already a policeman. So he was not injured on the cheek, he had a moustache because he loved it. In all Christies novels I have never come across the WWI love that Poirot had in the film. And the way the rest of the story and characters were changed just took away the real story takes you in. I had hoped for better after the Orient Express diseaster, but this film has convinced me to not watch the third film. - 851222 - 8 March 2024
An improvement over "Express" in nearly every way
Greetings from Lithuania.
In my opinion, "Death on the Nile" (2022) was a clearly an improvement over "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017). With "Nile", director Kenneth Branagh did a better job and the movie looks, plays and feels way better. Its not that i did not like "Express", i did, but "Nile" is better.
I haven't read "Death on the Nile" so i'm not here to judge the adaptation. What i can say is that at its running time almost 2 hours this movie barelly dragged and i was involved from the stunning opening sequence. The mystery which transpires later was very well done and while i maybe did see it coming, the ending was a genuine surprise to me. I really liked it.
Overall, "Death on the Nile" is a very good movie. Superbly done in every way, with clearly a big budget this movie looks gorgeous and was a very pleasant watch. - uscmd - 6 January 2024
I prefer it.
Others have criticized this version of Agatha Chhristie's work. I honestly prefer it. I'm almost 80, so you think I'd be partial to a period piece., In truth, I often find them tedious.
I liked the Poirot, background piece. I loved seeing Gal Gadot, who doesn't? But what I loved most was not having the plot worked out, 30 minutes in. Add a justifiably nutty friend, a pampered poodle, a sociopathic boy toy (type casting?) and a roomful of supporting characters, that add spice to the stew. Further enriched by some great blues singing.
If you like Christie, or detective mysteries, you'll find this a delightful way to spend a few hours. "8" from me. Surprised this isn't easily in the "7's" - Gonnabe2015 - 7 January 2023
If you like Agatha don't watch this
If you've read the books and love the character of Poirot don't watch this movie. I don't know how the duck her grandchildren allowed this to be released.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Khacen - 14 December 2022
My eyes are bleading
I love any Poirot also because its class, elegance, that typical atmosphere of polite times... except these by KB who seem to want to get out of the classics with too much effort and thus end up remaining anonymous. Maybe if someone has little knowledge of Poirot, old series and old movies, can enjoy this... but the dialogues are bad and cringe, the modern inputs trivial, the characters unfortunately are not well shown and this creates confusion and one can't identify with anyone. If Ustinov's Death on the Nile is 10/10, this is 2/10... I also add that unfortunately I've seen this dubbed in Italian, which I rarely do and which nowadays makes almost everything seem super shoddy. - janney-01851 - 2 November 2022
Tedious
This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Kenneth Branagh's portrayal of Hercule Poirot was lifeless. (What happened to the facial scars from his war service, by the way?) All he seemed to do was stare at people with an annoying smirk on his face. The film awkwardly segues from a speakeasy in which Gal Gadot appears in the doorway, wearing what seems to be an aluminum foil dress, to a steamboat cruise on the Nile with the same main characters. No one in this movie can act except, perhaps, the stunningly beautiful Emma Mackey. However, she has little material with which to work. One wonders why she is obsessed with the bland Simon Doyle, woodenly portrayed by Armie Hammer--other than the fact that he is supposedly a raging stallion between the sheets. I kept falling asleep during the movie and had to replay sections that I'd missed. However, it was hardly worth the effort. - arthur_tafero - 11 October 2022
As Original as a McDonald's Burger - Death on the Nile
How many times are they going to make. The same movie over again? Can't Hollywood studios find ANYONE in the United States who can write a mystery other than Agatha Christie, who, by the way, is very good, but the film is not. Not after you have seen three versions of the same piece of work over and over. It's not Shakespeare, OK? It's just a damn mystery. There is no need to go over the plot as I am sure almost everyone in America has seen one version or another of this film. Chris Gore scores again. The only reason I watched this film was because I had free passes from my brother in law who is the theater manager. Even then, it was a waste of time.
