Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Murder and mystery, Agatha Christie set these stories up like no one before her or truly no one since. Come along with Inspector Poirot through this harrowing adventure.

Original Review:

Vision, few people have the gift to see beyond normalcy to simply see the world around them. One of them is the renowned Inspector Poirot. Poirot is highly sought after due to his deducing abilities, while en route to help solve another crime, he'll find himself at the heart of a separate situation. You see, whilst onboard the Orient Express, someone is murdered. In order for justice, it must be solved before they arrive at their destination. One by one, he questions all of the occupants on board. The more answers he gets, the more questions it is that he has. When he finally deduces the why the who is obvious... Or is it? That answer might surprise you. A harrowing mystery that is based off of a timeless novel comes to life (once again) on the big screen. As it does, it quickly becomes more than it seems to be. Fans of Agatha Christie or murder mysteries, in general, will be mystified by what they see here. Those expecting a quick and clear resolution may be disappointed. The telling is a bit unconventional but the story has more to it than it seems. Will it be for you? That's for you to decide.

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Speaker 0 00:00:02 Hello everybody and welcome back. It is once again me your favorite deputy of movie Deputy Podcasts, bringing to you the first of the Modern Plural Mysteries. Now, technically these are more Agatha Christie mysteries because Murder on the Orient Express was actually, I don't remember if she was the original author, but I, I think she was, I, I probably should have looked that up before I did this, but it's a Monday, so I didn't wanna get too deep into anything with a Monday. I mean, come on, forgive me for yesterday. I mean, I hope you enjoyed the review, but I usually see Reserve my weekends for just the new releases, but at least I made it a 2023 movie. So I tried to at least stay true to that. And that might seem a little bit silly or a little bit redundant to some, but, hmm, it is what, it's so yay <laugh>. Speaker 0 00:00:53 But I'm gonna be bringing you today Murder on the Orient Express. It came out in 2017. This is when I saw in the theater like everybody else. I didn't, there's more movies than not that I probably see in the theater like everybody else. I do get some screeners from the studios, but I love the atmosphere of being in the theater. It's like even if I get the screener from the studio, I've learned the hard way to go see the theatrical version before I do my review because sometimes there's a few changes and a few more things hit the cutting room floor or something gets added and it ends up changing what I wrote or what I <laugh> did have in the podcast or anything like that. So it's really important to make sure that it's the same movie than one I screened versus the one that's being released. Speaker 0 00:01:39 I had one actually a few years ago where the one that I screened, they had decided to just scrap it and go a completely different direction. 'cause I saw a really early screener and what they ended up with the theater, I went to go see it. I'm like, <laugh>, I was literally at a loss for words. I'm like, what? The <laugh>, I'm not gonna repeat, I'm not gonna say the third word in that sentence. Let's just say the abbreviations for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are the same as what I was about to say. So that might be a safe way for me to say it whenever I wanna say that. I'll say Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. <laugh>, I do wanna get into this. First of all, I wanna share the original review that was on movie deputy.com, the original one that I had written and posted. Speaker 0 00:02:23 Then I'll talk a little bit more about the movie. You may be wondering about the score, and I will tell you that I did give this an innocent rating, even though it's about murder, because even though the title is Murder on the Orient Express, there's nothing really intense or anything that would make this guilty in any way, shape, or form except the title. And I mean, honestly, that's not enough to go on to get a guilty rating in my book. But the original review just read Simply Vision. Few people have the gift to see beyond Normalcy to simply see the world Speaker 1 00:02:58 Around them. One of them is a renowned Inspector Poirot Pro. I'm gonna do it again. Poirot is highly sought after due to his deducing abilities, while in route to help solve another crime. He'll find himself at the heart of a separate situation. You see, whilst onboard the Orient Express, someone is murdered in order for justice, it must be solved before they arrive at their destination. One by one, he questions all of the occupants on board. The more answers that he gets, the more questions it is that he has when he finally deduces the why. The who is obvious, or is it That answer might surprise you, A harrowing mystery that is based off of a timeless novel that comes to life once again on the big screen. As it does, it quickly becomes more than it seems to be. Fans of Agatha Christi or Murder Mysteries in general will be mystified by what they see here. Speaker 1 00:04:03 Those expecting a quick and clear resolution may be disappointed. The telling is a bit unconventional, but the story has more to it than it seems. Will it be for you? That's for you to decide. <laugh>. Now, as you know, I I'll, I'll pretty much always gotten a little bit philosophical with some of the reviews that I have on Deputy, and I've gotten maybe a little bit away from that since I have switched to the podcast format. Just, I used to kinda leave my readers with a question or with something wondering or something thought-provoking. And I'm trying to figure out how to maybe do a little bit of that in the podcast format. But when, when I was writing out the reviews, I really tried to focus on a lot of that. But like if you're familiar with the Aha Christie story of Murder on the Orient Express, you know how this is gonna end. Speaker 1 00:04:51 If you are not, it's not necessarily obvious what's happening. Some of these stories from early on, you can kind of tell the direction that it's going in this one just like it would seem to go one direction and then it would kind of go back and forth a little bit until it finally got you to where it ended up. Even at the very end. There's a twist you don't expect. Now that may come to a surprise to some people, but it's gonna be awesome to others. Now, unfortunately, there's no extra bonus scenes in the credits or anything like that. But the story definitely, it's like you walk outta there satisfied. Or even if you're watching it at home when the, when the movie is done, you're not left going, huh? You're, it's one of those. Hmm. So if you're curious about the score, I gave this, I'm, I'm again, am I surprised you a little bit. I gave Murder on the Orient Express, a six out of 10 on the deputy scale, they may thinking, okay, why didn't she go a little bit higher? Well, honestly, Speaker 2 00:05:56 Personally, I was probably low mid sevens on this one, but there's a few just little minor issues that I had with it. Like I said, that most people probably don't even pick up on and catch, but my brain just zeroes in on that stuff and then I can't get past it. So that's the only reason it knocked the score a little bit and the fact that there's, there's a couple just cliche moments in the movie, but um, it's Agatha Christie, would you expect any less? I hope not. <laugh>, if you are enjoying these reviews, I hope that you like and subscribe to Movie Deputy Reviews, our upcoming movies, and of course my movie Deputy Channel where all of our boldness content goes. I am having so much fun bringing all these movies to you, and I hope that you are having just as much fun listening. Stay tuned. I will be back tomorrow with Murder, uh, or Death on the Nile. I had to, I got a little bit confused on the title there. So Dip. That's all folks, and honestly, that is all folks. So I will talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

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