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Death on the Nile

 

What I liked: Much like Murder on the Orient Express, this movie was beautiful there were pristine sets with bright colors and long single shots with lots of movement. I liked that they laid some clues to help you if you are trying to solve the murder and that there was some cool blues music. The cruise looked quite luxurious, apart from the death, and I'm impressed that the company could make a profit with so few passengers in such a large ship. 

What I didn't: Despite being a cruise on the Nile, there was not a single crocodile. Historically this takes place around the same time as The Jungle, but even without that expose of food processing, I hope that someone would have recognized that or is terribly unhygienic to store bodies near the ham and asparagus. Maybe the doctor or nurse could have thought of that. Poirot didn't seem to solve the mystery as much as narrate it. As with all detective stories who's the detectives. If you hear there will be one on the boat with you, don't get on the boat. The same goes for trains and planes and buildings. For some reason the best detectives in the world cannot solve a murder without at least the more incidental murders occurring along the way. 

Who would watch this? People who like Murder on the Orient Express. People who watched Murder on the Orient Express and thought, "what this really needs is some mummies." People who have been waiting for the mustache's backstory. Not people who share the same view on sand as Anakin. 

Would I watch it again? Once was fine.

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