
Hercule Poirot, the best detective in the world, decides to travel on the Orient Express. The train accidentally gets stopped because of a small avalanche. Little did he know that a murder was planned and that a person on this train was capable of committing such crime.... (Full plot summary below)
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Hercule Poirot, the best detective in the world, decides to travel on the Orient Express. The train accidentally gets stopped because of a small avalanche. Little did he know that a murder was planned and that a person on this train was capable of committing such crime.
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| CineGods.comWade MajorWhile Kenneth Branagh's latest incarnation can't rival Sidney Lumet's original 1974 version for its all-star credentials, it is by far the more enjoyable and cinematic interpretation... |
| Newport This Week (RI)Loren King... Branagh takes us on an elegant, entertaining ride. |
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda Cook'Murder' puts a new spin on an old favorite. |
| The PlaylistDrew TaylorOverlong and joyless, it’s the cinematic equivalent of a giant, opulent express train trapped in the snow, heaving and off balance. Buy another ticket. Skip this train. |
| IGN MoviesWilliam BibbianiIt’s a classy, riveting remake, and it will make you want to see even more adventures featuring this particular Poirot. |
| Paste MagazineWill LeitchThe movie is embalmed in its own self-regard. You watch it from behind glass, a museum piece you aren't allowed to touch. Branagh was trying to make something timeless. But he just made something endless. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePiers MarchantIt's a respectable, engaging sort of experience that asks little more of you than to spend some time in the parlor room, sizing up a host of agreeably intriguing characters. |
| Movie MomNell MinowDoes not have the lush glamour of the 1974 original and the tone is uneven, but the tricky puzzle is still fun to solve [and] the international cast makes it entertaining. |
| Illinois TimesCharles KoplinskiPurists may object to some of the additions Green brings to the table. Yet, most of them feel true to the nature of the story and the characters and help Branagh in preventing this from becoming a staid and static affair. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsAn Agatha Christie classic whodunit solved the old-fashioned way... by the extraordinary deductive reasoning of the legendary Hercule Poirot! |