Review: 'Murder On The Orient Express'

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Tv & Film

4.5 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Does the heavily-promoted film with the stacked cast (Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley) live up to the hype?

Synopsis: "A lavish trip through Europe quickly unfolds into a race against time to solve a murder aboard a train. When an avalanche stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks, the world's greatest detective -- Hercule Poirot -- arrives to interrogate all passengers and search for clues before the killer can strike again."

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
0:03.3	Check, check, check.
0:04.9	Cool.
0:06.0	We saw murder on the Orient Express.
0:09.1	Yes, we did.
0:10.2	And as someone who read the book, I must say that I thought it was, uh, it's fine, when
0:19.0	you've read the book and then you see it, there's always that,
0:22.3	like, I've read the book thing.
0:25.7	I've never had that feeling.
0:27.3	Most of the people in the theater with me, most of us had read the book.
0:31.4	So we...
0:32.2	You established that before the movie started?
0:33.9	Yes, so I got up, I said, I've read the book, who else here has read the book? And someone raised their hand. I said, I've read the book.
0:38.8	Who else here has read the book?
0:40.6	And someone raised their hand.
0:43.6	They said, I've read the book, but I didn't see the original one. And I said, okay, well, we do have some people on standby who were willing to put in the work to see this.
0:51.2	So I said, tell you what, go fucking make yourself useful.
0:55.9	Why don't you get daddy some raisinets?
0:57.9	I'm going to say, why don't you go see Daddy's home too, you uncultured swan?
1:02.0	Yes.
1:02.8	Yeah, that's, yeah, go fucking Sid, go eat popcorn with the fucking chuckleheads.
1:08.6	I let, it was a fucking packed theater on a damn Sunday morning, wasn't happy.
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