Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Kenneth Branagh (Thor, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit)
	Actors: Kenneth Branagh (Wild Wild West), Penélope Cruz (Blow), Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man, The Grand Budapest Hotel), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars 7-9), Johnny Depp (The Ninth Gate)
	Country: USA, M
	Genre: Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 11.04.2018, in-flight entertainment system 10" screen.
Synopsis: Renowned detective Hercules Poirot (Branagh) travels from Israel to France on board the Orient Express, where he encounters different characters. A mysterious murder will require all of his wits to be solved.
Review: In the world created by Agatha Christie in the early 20th century, French detective Hercules Poirot is the best and uses implacable logic and interrogation techniques to crack impossible cases, a bit like Sherlock Holmes for Arthur Conan Doyle at the end of the 19th but without the obsession for deduction. Holmes is often portrayed in Cinema and television (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the Japanese animated series, the recent British series, Mr. Holmes) while Poirot is less, but this movie is in fact the remake of a 1974 classic. The setting is pretty nice, between the oriental starting point and the ride on the famed train during a time period when it was glamour to travel like that. I found Poirot to be quite well depicted be the actor / director Branagh even though he is not French and his accent sounds obviously fake. His moustache is also amazing! He is surrounded by characters that we take the time to learn to know while they are one by one suspected, and those characters are well played by a bunch of famous faces. I was annoyed at some point that the characters were having unrealistic reactions, some events looked too staged and coincidences were piling up, but fortunately the resolution of the story gives sense to almost everything. Although not the best detective story ever, I would recommend the movie for the set and characters.
Rating: 6 /10