Review: Death on the Nile
Detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is aboard a steamship travelling on the Nile along with passengers celebrating with honeymooners Linnet (Gal Gadot) and Simon (Armie Hammer). Also on board is Simon’s rather unstable ex Jacqueline (Emma Mackey). At some point a murder occurs on board and hey, lucky a certain Belgian detective is on board to solve the mystery, right? Sophie Okonedo and Letitia Wright play a jazz singer and her niece, Annette Bening plays a famous painter whose son (Tom Bateman) is a friend of Poirot, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French play Linnet’s godmother and her nurse, Russell Brand is a meek doctor whom Linnet left for Simon, and Rose Leslie plays Linnet’s maid. The 1978 film version of Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile” was an attractive, entertaining star-studded affair with Sir Peter Ustinov chewing scenery without being self-indulgent. However, a fairly transparent mystery lessened my enjoyment a bit. This 2022 version from director-star Kenne