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Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We saw the most recent film adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery classic, Murder on the Orient Express. Directed and starring Kenneth Branagh, it's lush and lavish and maybe missing a few pieces it needs to be assembled into a fully functional whole? It’s like an Ikea bookshelf with a few screws and dowel rods missing, is what we’re saying. We discuss our general, non-spoiler thoughts before talking about upcoming films, before getting to our Club Member only spoiler section. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to another first round of bald movies. This time we went to see the

0:04.7

Murder on the Orient Express. Or is just murder. It's not the murder. Murder on the Orient

0:09.6

Express. And this is directed by Kenneth Brauna-Gagga.

0:17.8

And it starred Kenneth Braana-G-G-G-G-G-Ga as, as, uh, he, he, he, he, here, perone. as Hercule Perot? Hercules Pirate, right?

0:27.5

That's how Ayrron would pronounce it.

0:30.5

That's how Johnny Depp pronounces it too.

0:32.3

Quite possibly the world's greatest detective.

0:35.0

He was a star of over 30 murder mysteries by one Agatha Christie,

0:41.0

including Murder on the Orinth Express. I learned as I read the

0:44.6

Wikipedia article waiting for you to show up to the studio. Yeah zero of which I've

0:48.2

read. Yeah me either. That's that's the thing we really picked a good one here

0:52.0

in that there will be experts out there who have, you know, indulged in the Poiras stuff and have analyzed it from every angle.

1:01.3

Yeah. We are not those fellas.

1:03.6

Well, here's what I'll say.

1:05.4

I thought Her-Q-per-O was a really great character.

1:11.9

And I enjoyed the sentiment in the wrap up of the final of the

1:16.4

finale of the act but I thought the solution was fairly preposterous and I assuming, since this is a beloved revered

1:25.0

mystery novel that that is the fault of the screenplay adapter and the director

1:30.3

who is the same Kenneth Brahmaana gaga gah gah.

1:35.0

I don't I don't think it is.

1:37.0

According to my girlfriend who has read the book,

1:40.0

listen to the audio book that this movie is based on.

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