Murder on the Orient Express Film Review

Finished watching Murder on the Orient Express, starring director Kenneth Branagh and Tom Bateman. The film opens with detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) in Jerusalem helping the police with a theft before taking a boat to Istanbul where he receives news of a case in England asking for his expertise which leads to his friend Bouc (Tom Bateman) getting Poirot tickets on the Orient Express to get a connection to England in time. While on the train Poirot so finds himself having to try and solve a the murder of one of the passengers with the rest of them all being suspects to the murder. Overall this was a good film as it has an intriguing premise that contains some amazing character interactions Poirot has with the rest of the cast plays extremely well with how the character is and how the story moves forward. The film does a good job in spending time setting up and introducing each character coming onto the train before they are interrogated by Poirot. The revelation of who was the culprit of the murder is underwhelming as the execution of the murder feels very elaborate making the reveal the least interesting part of the film. 7.5/10.