Death on the Nile (2022)

Director Kenneth Branagh. Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey, Annette Bening, Letitia Wright, Russell Brand, Sophie Okonedo. 127 min. Mystery/Crime.

• Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express and his performance as Hercules Poirot made the movie one of my top 10 of 2017, and his recent movie Belfast proves that regardless of a few misses in his directing profile, the man has recently been on a role - because Death on the Nile, Branagh’s second attempt at an Agatha Christie novel revival, is another highlight in his career.
• While Orient Express was more fun to watch and supplemented with a significantly deeper ending, considering the first murder in this one happens halfway into the movie, Nile is still able to engage the viewer considerably. The tone is (intentionally?) darker, sprinkled with a few moments of contemplative silence throughout, and again, we have a stellar cast of actors making a colorful Christie mystery even more colorful. The pitfall is that Branagh comes up short of the kind of thought-provoking content he delivered in Orient Express.  
• Nevertheless, I hope Kenneth Branagh keeps on making Poirot movies. The first one happened on a train, the second on a ship at sea. So the third one: on an airplane? I mean, Agatha Christie does have a Poirot mystery, “Death in the Clouds” …

MoGo's rating: 7/10

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