Review by csm1072000

The worst Christie adapation ever. The film has a great cast of good actors: Bill Nighy, Matthew Goode and Luke Treadaway, but that's all that's about all this mess has going for it. Yes, sometimes book adapations have to create narrative that meshes with visual adaptation but what the filmmakers here have done is sabatoge Christie's fine novel. Writer Sarah Phelps admits she's never watched or read Christie. Well that's apparent as she not only destroys Christie's novel but changes character's intentions/wants and the eventual murderers. It's ludicrious. Also director Sandra Goldbacher directs this as it's a serial killer horror film. WTF. Christie novels have style/commentary about English social cultural aspects and are supposed to be fun. This is drab/ugly and down right depressing. Christie would rattle in her grave if she knew what they have done to her novel and her estate should be ashamed of itself for greenlighting this. I have watched many Christie adapations some great/some fun/ some so so. But never have I seen such a ugly/misguided attempt to adapt one of her novels. If I ever see either Phelps or Goldbacher as writer and director of a feature, I'm running for the hills.