![]() ![]() Like The Big Four (the film of which screened a couple of weeks ago), the book is a series of short stories connected together. The story of this film is pretty good, though bears little resemblance to Christie’s book The Labours of Hercules. Jeff Tesler’s production design is also sumptuous and offers an effective combination of pleasing vistas and claustrophobia-inducing interiors. Though director Andy Wilson wisely avoids referencing The Shining too much, there is still something menacing about the atmosphere that surrounds these curious people cooped-up in a hotel due to the snow. Everyone is trapped in the hotel with a killer. ![]() There has been an avalanche, affecting the running of the cable-car that climbs the mountain. He and a group of guests (played by a bunch of recognisable TV actors, most notably Orla Brady and Simon Callow) are unable to leave. David Suchet, as always, place the role beautifully, which will make the end very hard for us to face when it arrives next week.įor the most part this film is confined to the hotel where Poirot is staying. Poirot is a more serious, cautious creature here, one who seems to know he is reaching the end of his days. Though it doesn’t have the bleak and jaw-dropping severity of the 2010 version of Murder on the Orient Express, this film is certainly more sombre in tone. For the time being, Poirot is journeying to the Swiss mountains to track down a missing maid and put his guilt to rest. Next week we shall see him decline in the final instalment, Curtain. So begins this penultimate film – the last time we shall see Poirot acting as a mobile, self-sufficient entity investigating a crime. After a trap to ensnare this dangerous criminal goes wrong, leading to the aforementioned young woman’s death, the famous Belgian detective becomes deeply depressed. ![]() Torn apart, apparently, by a vicious killer who murders and robs just for the fun of it. ![]()
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