Death On The Nile Review: Branagh's Second Poirot Is Another Fun Mystery
Hercule Poirot is back with another murder mystery to solve. After several delays, due in part to the global pandemic and the sexual abuse allegations against Armie Hammer (whose scenes were not reshot), Death on the Nile is finally being released in theaters. Directed by Kenneth Branagh from a screenplay by Michael Green, Death on the Nile, which is based on the novel by Agatha Christie, is an entertaining comfort movie that works better than anticipated.
Death on the Nile opens with Hercule Poirot’s (Branagh, pulling double duty as actor and director) time as a soldier in World War I before jumping to 1937 London. At a nightclub, Poirot is witness to Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot), an heiress, getting steamy on the dance floor with Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer), the fiancé of Linnet’s friend Jacqueline de Bellefort (Emma Mackey). Six weeks later, on holiday in Egypt, Poirot bumps into his friend Bouc (Tom Bateman), who invites him to attend the honeymoon getaway trip planned by Simon and Linnet, the newly married couple. Things take a turn when Jacqueline, angry about her fiancé leaving her for another woman, joins the private Nile cruise. When one of the group — which includes Linnet’s ex-fiancé Linus Windlesham (Russell Brand), cousin and lawyer Andrew Katchadourian (Ali Fazal), and Linnet’s old classmate Rosalie Otterbourne (Letitia Wright) — is murdered, Poirot sets out to investigate the crime and motives of the killer.
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Death on the Nile is a solid film overall, one that is elevated by its intriguing mystery and the ways in which it gives each character a backstory, leaving the audience suspicious of every single one of them at some point
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