Death on the Nile

Don’t waste your money on this flick … I’m sure Agatha Christie is turning over in her grave at how they’ve bastardized her story - go buy/rent the original movie version; it’s a better value for your dollar.

First half was hella slow. The ending was kinda predictable, but ended up being interesting as you watch it unfold.

Flashy enough for pantomime but lacking the sense of fun, the rest of the film follows Branagh’s journey into dull excess, with Christie’s cracking whodunnit deafened by the camerawork and deadened by lazy writing.

I liked Death on the Nile a fair bit more than Branagh’s previous Christie film, partly because it’s a less predictable and schematic narrative to begin with, and partly because Branagh the actor has a way of outfoxing his own pedestrian direction.

Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

As it is, this “Death on the Nile,” for too long an affected and strained entertainment lacking any sense of place, floats well downstream from more bracingly constructed whodunits.