This has a few things going for it. All Star cast, nice cinematography, great moustaches and lots of extravagant quirks.
I feel modern day adaptations can do so much more to advance a remake of a film though. The characters were not explored enough and the script was dry. It needed a good refresh of the original story.
I was also confused with the ending where Poirot was met by an officer telling him there had been a murder in Egypt on the Nile... but in the next film the murder on the Nile does not happen until Poirot is actually there on the boat.
I don't think Branagh read his own scripts when making Death on the Nile.
I feel modern day adaptations can do so much more to advance a remake of a film though. The characters were not explored enough and the script was dry. It needed a good refresh of the original story.
I was also confused with the ending where Poirot was met by an officer telling him there had been a murder in Egypt on the Nile... but in the next film the murder on the Nile does not happen until Poirot is actually there on the boat.
I don't think Branagh read his own scripts when making Death on the Nile.