joeywyss

The cinematography is simply perfection, from closeups to wideshot of the beautiful English countrysides. The decision to go dark instead of light and comical (we are talking about MURDER here) I found to be very successful also. Excellent casting, from Malkovich to even Rupert Grint (who finally gets a role where he's not just the goofy ginger, but a serious grown man), all the roles were spot on. While there are many complaints here that it wasn't David Suchet (who, agreed, was a slice of heaven), it must be realized Mr. Suchet was not the first to play Poirot, and he won't be the last, any more than the many Miss Marples that got to play the role. Malkovich takes the character in a different direction and it works. To all the complainers, it would be BORING to see any of Agatha Christie's material portrayed in the exact same way with the exact same actors over and over again. Clearly the project and material was treated with love and true intent, not remotely with the disrespect being portrayed by some of the postings here.

I was an hour into this movie , and I was thinking, "Hey, it's a good movie, but it's not a horror movie." NOPE, definitely a HORROR MOVIE, and the best parts are the twists and turns because you can't figure out, is this Satanic? Is it just this one's crazy, or that one's crazy? Is this a freakin dream? Excellent! Great production and ideas, great imagination...a nice pay attention horror piece.

I kept waiting for this to turn into a groan-er, but ended up very surprised. There's some very dark twisted humor woven throughout, and a good choice of newbie casting gives it a solid base to build on. After all the garbage horror I'm finding on Amazon Prime, this was a delight. I had an expectation of some degree of quality when I saw Gershon, Astin and Browder (who also directed!), and was waiting to be let down by the 'teens' but they held their own which saves the movie. Funny without being silly or campy, gory but not ridiculously so, and a solid script that stayed on point. The blending of the graphic novel scenes was a cherry on top to be sure. I usually prefer my horror to lean more supernatural , but this was a solid choice, and THANK HEAVENS none of that found footage garbage.