On the Karnak, there's a murder, then another, then another. Unable to turn her back on Simon when he and Linnet go from London to the Nile for their wedding, mercurial Jacqui invites herself to join them on the paddle steamer Karnak, exquisitely restored for the film. Linnet also has to contend with the resentful stalking of her former school friend Jacqueline de Bellefort (Emma Mackey) when the chemistry between Linnet and Jacqui's by all accounts over-sexed fiance Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer) takes control. Scriptwriter Michael Green conveys that message cleverly, by making the script less about story, more about character.įew would fail to be won over to the good side when luscious heiress Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot) says in her softly accented sultry way: 'Whenever you have money, no one is really your friend. Writing as Word War II loomed, Agatha Christie had good reason to want Death on the Nile to show how goodness triumphs over evil. This time, he reveals personal wounds, psychological and physical, becoming more complex and human than he was in previous versions, to the extent that audiences might even flinch in defence of him when a suspect under pressure accuses him of being 'a bombastic, egocentric little freak'. In Death on the Nile, Poirot is more than an obsessive nitpicker with an outstanding eye for things that are unusual or out of place. Photo / Getty Imagesĭeath on the Nile (M, 127 mins) Directed by Kenneth BranaghĪgatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, played by Kenneth Branagh, is a quirky sleuth with a mysterious past, as those familiar with Poirots played earlier by Albert Finney, John Malkovich, David Suchet and Peter Ustinov will know. Death on the Nile is screening in cinemas now.

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