FOX Death On The Nile 2022 Movie Review Finale

It’s The Red Carpet Of Famous Corpses Leaving The Movie!
Movies done. I won’t spoil the end but you might have guessed it by now. Poirot is down to his last suspect interview. His buddy.

In the end it turns out it was a gunshot. Sigh. So much for wondering who poisoned her. Guess that was a bit ambitious. Also explanations about the theft of the necklace.

It was… Poirot’s friend. Who picked it up after he found Linnet dead. He apparently went to tell her about the Husband, found her dead, and pocketed the necklace.

Poirot intends to turn him in at Cairo for theft. But seeing how he’s a good man he will tell Poirot everything. As he apparently knows who the murderer was. As he saw Louise attempting to blackmail the killer.

But the friend is shot dead. Which means no. We can’t get any happy ending here can we. Sigh. Poirot gives chase, and ends up taking possession of the gun held by the killer. A .32 caliber borrowed off another passenger.

Well… Everyone seems well armed. Anyway it’s time. Everyone is brought to the main area of the ship, and Poirot has the crew deal them in. It’s time for the reveal. And the capture of the murderers.

No no. We are not going to have a lynch mob again like Orient Express! But to pull this one off we needed a duet… You probably already know who do no need to say.

It’s a great third and final act. Everyone’s acting is notch on superb. Kenneth Brannagh is the perfect Poirot, the fight enjoyable mix of emotions acted superbly. The ending does not disappoint. Yes it’s not happy. But it’s well done. Right to the fade out…

As it’s revealed that this Poirot is now a fan of American Blues. Awesome. Anyway that’s a good movie… Oh wait. There is one good news! The lesbian couple leaves alive, well, and still together! Yay!

So all in all I enjoyed myself once again. An overall enjoyable entrancing movie from beginning to end. Maybe even better than Orient Express in my opinion. Visually well done… The backdrop of Egypt offering more visually than the Alps before.

Well acted, well written and screenplayed (both the original Agatha Christie book and movie screenplay). Enjoyable throughout, and gives you everything you need to solve the murders. Well done. Another 5 out of 5.

My only regret is that this movie ended its run MAYBE breaking even at the box office. Well… Maybe my endorsement will convince you to buy yourself the trilogy? On DVD or Bluray or Digital? Recommended from me to you.

There is still one more movie to review. 2023’s A Haunting In Venice. As of this review ending I still need to buy the DVD. I’ll do it probably during the summer. With a targeted goal of reviewing it in September after Case Closed Season 5. Stay tuned.

Ok. I’m taking tomorrow off from DVD reviews. Then bouncing back Monday. First we review Case Closed Movie #3… I’ll try not to spoil too much reveals of Season 3 as seen in the movie. Then Season 3 is reviewed! Coming up… Stay tuned.

FOX Death On The Nile 2022 Movie Review Part 4

Who’s Ready To Be Detailed While On A Boat!
Well… Was I right yesterday? Did it till out exactly as I thought it would?… Hey! I, like a broken clock, turn out to be right occasionally.

Not a broken digital clock that’s right never because it’s not displaying anything. But yes. I was spot on. Wow. Amazing. I think I’ll order me some cookies with my restock of cocoa and creamer to celebrate. And Miss Congeniality 2000 on Amazon Prime for $5.

So why was the husband shot in the leg by the ex? To keep him away from Linnet. Last he realized she was dying from a drug overdose or drug poisoning.

Did someone later after the fact go to get room and out a bullet in her head? To dissuade a doctor (who turns out to be Linnet’s own spurned not quite ex lover) from checking her for poison? Yes.

Is there still a chance to uncover that poison? Yes. Fancy ship has giant walk in freezer. Where Linnet is now stowed away. Her body ready for a proper autopsy.

Poirot once again digs in his heels and investigates. The acting and directing chips of Kenneth Brannagh on full power as he weaves masterful scenes as Poirot investigates.

This movie is enjoyable intense with light moments drizzled in to bring a smile to your face. Well crafted by people who know how to make a great mystery. Enjoyable. Which kinda saddens me that this movie only broke even at best.

Not that Disney was going to keep Poirot after acquiring FOX. I feel Brannagh has reached the end of his Poirot journey. But if someone does 20s era movies in an Alternate Reality with Poirot & Katherine? Consider me returning for more.

All the pieces slowly behind to come together, at times colliding with rage filled force, as Linnet’s fear of those around her becomes clear. Crystal even.

Not all on board are evil. Though Poirot’s friends mother is an ass. Turns out Poirot wasn’t on vacation after all. He was investigating the blues duo of mother & daughter for the mom. Too bad for her, they got Poirot’s stamp of approval.

After he pitted the mother to the son revealing her deception, and making sure he knew that the girl he chose is right for him. Awesome. But it does place Poirot in bad with the dsughter… Then…

Oh wait. Other reveals first. The lawyer that got Linnet to sign suspicious papers? Turns out he was stealing from her. Poirot reveals his schemes.

The ship’s doctor? Former man who was in love with Linnet. Is he the killer though? That depends on whether he does the autopsy on her body and reveals the true cause of death.

That 30s era social activist lady with a maid? Turns out her maid is really the lady’s lesbian lover in disguise… Wait. Was this in the original Agatha Christie book? If I go back to 1978 and Peter Ustinof will that also have a lesbian couple?

On Poirot’s orders the crew dredge the Nile. And turn up the gun used to shoot Linnet. The .22. But it turns out that the lawyer didn’t do it… He had his own .45 caliber to kill with… (Though again she didn’t really die from gunshot so doesn’t matter what shot her).

The missing necklace bought at the start of the cruise pops up after supposedly being stolen. That reveals… That leads to the mother’s interference in her son’s love being revealed.

While trying to apologize to the young singer? A very dramatic reveal is made that the body count has been upped to 2. Louise, who found Linnet? And had a story about how Kinney ruined her chance at marriage? Now she’s dead too.

No Time to find a gun to shoot her. She had her throat slit, and tossed into the ship’s paddleboat wheel. To insure she’s found, detailing the investigation.

Or, as I suspect, to keep anyone from doing that autopsy on Linnet. And uncovering her poisoning. Yes I am on a roll with my theory, though I promise not to be killed in this bill if I am wrong.

As the husband of Linnet (present when Poirot revealed him for the scum he is) and the lawyer decide to WWE each other in front of everyone? Poirot… Suddenly realizes they were doing her examination in the room where she was killed.

It looks like we are drawing close to the reveal. With the ship returning to port and Egyptian police come morning? We are just about ready for a reveal. But Poirot doesn’t have all the answers. Yet.

So will I be proven right? Or was it really just a gunshot to the head she slept through… Along with the loud screamy shooting incident that could have some the dead. We shall see.

So I will need sometime to buy A Haunting In Venice to complete our Kenneth Brannagh Poirot trilogy. We will probably get that squared away before year end. Oh well. Stay tuned.

FOX Death On The Nile 2022 Movie Review Part 3

There’s No Escaping Love… Or Ex-Fiancees… Or Death.
The signs grow that it’s going to be Linnet that dies. Even as the gang boards the Nile ship SS Karnak… The Egyptian locale, not the alter ego of Johnny Carson.

As the ship loads up and departs, the ex seemingly left behind, Linnet nevertheless seeks out Poirot. Making sure he’s part of the cruise. Why? Because she has a revelation…

Now, this might be a non surprise to all of us… Yeah it’s a non surprise… But Linnet’s 1930s entourage isn’t exactly filled with worldly philanthropic people! I’m fact there are people ready to kill for her money.

No sooner does Poirot agree to be Linnet’s trusted one plus? He find his black grim reaper suit… And is there as the couple’s lawyer has Linnet sign an entirely new will. Rushing her along…

Yup. Let’s see… Things NOT to do While on a Poirot vacation. Don’t disrupt the harmony of his snack cakes. Don’t fly kites in the pyramids. Don’t sign brand new wills meaning your life is now forfeit… Yeesh.

Oh. We need some happiness. Ok. Turns out Poirot’s buddy is in love with the younger of the mother daughter soul singers brought in from America! He’s worried his mom will not approve…

She probably doesn’t but who cares. At this huge temple dedicated to Rameses II (not the Yurl Brynner version) and his wife (one of eight… OH! So Yurl Brynner’s Rameses didn’t need to stay with what’s her name after Moses killed his entire army! Oh!

Anyway like with Orient Express the visuals are great in this movie. Even moreso here. After all, they’re bringing Late 1930s Egypt to life! These visuals of this huge temple is just awe inspiring.

The cruise stops here as everyone explores the ruins. Plus it’s friend tells his mom he’s in love, and with her kinda sorta blessings he commits to his love. Willing to work hard to make a marriage work. Awww! How beautiful! And her mom approves of him!

Uhh… This is to make up for the sadness to come from the murder right? They’ll actually leave the movie happily ever after right? All this love is reminding Poirot of Katherine so… They’ll be the happy ending for love yes?

Oh. Then while at the temple they scoot off alone, and he’s seconds away from flipping her skirt up and… Sheesh! Rule34 in my Poirot movie?!? Why!!… It’s stopped by someone trying to cause a falling rocks incident.

Is this tied to the ex? Spoiler… She caught up and arrived at the ship just as everyone left. But she hasn’t left the ship since arriving so no… It’s another person in the group.

Sure enough, returning to the ship confirms Linnet’s worst fears. The guy’s ex is here. And she’s now at wits end. Despite that, Poirot tries again to talk some sense into her.

But she is no more willing to give up now than she was when he last spoke to her. Which leads to some powerful acting from Kenneth Brannagh. As he tells us how Katherine died.

His range of acting as Poirot is awesome by the way. From OCD, to straight man, to buddy pal, to angry and even every man relatable. Now his strongest saddest moment.

We find out that Katherine died shortly after the opening scene. She was visiting Poirot in December, just as he was about to be discharged after recovering from his injuries in the front. Killed by a German mortar attack that destroyed her train.

I figured as much. The only way that we can get a Poirot Katherine team up trilogy… Is to set it in an Alternate Reality. I’m cool with Alternate Realities but not many are like me. Sigh. Well… We will always have fan fictions.

Affected harder than she realized by Poirot’s story, the ex tries to get drunk. Only the staff departed the ship for hotels nearby… Apparently there’s no crews left on this ship at nondescript the medical team.

Linnet goes to bed, having taken her sleeping meds already… Yeah I know what your thinking. I think so too. Anyway the guy harasses his ex until she snaps. She shoots him in the leg with her shiny gun.

It’s a large chaotic scene afterwards. Getting the doctor. Salinger frantic ex. Getting the husband cared for… Yes. It’s 1930s ships with little in the way so sound dampening walls… You know what th–

NO NOT THAT RULE34! Sigh. Yes. Linnet doesn’t react to the loud noises and screaming and such. She might already be dead from poisoning. Except someone is going to shoot her and cloud the investigation. Aren’t they.

Morning comes. Who wants to bet Linnet is quite dead. So place your bets. Was she needlessly shot to mask a possible poisoning? Who did it? And will there be any happy endings for anyone in this movie? Stay tuned.

FOX Death On The Nile 2022 Movie Review Part 2

Let’s Go Fly A Suspects… I Mean Father The Kite… I Mean Deadpool & Wolverine’s Newest Trailer Is Awesome.
The suspects are gathered. The likely killers lined up. And Poirot regrets dropping by his favorite nightclub for his favorite desserts. Dammit! He should have kept Dessert #7!

So that guy flying a kite on the pyramids near the Sphinx? He’s a friend of Poirot… Wait… Was he the guy who aided Poirot in Orient Express? He talks about working on a train.

Poirot ends up joining him and his mother as they are involved in the Honeymoon Of The Damned. Aka the happy couple Poirot ran into six weeks ago in the UK.

Only they’re now married. And on their honeymoon. Followed by the cast of suspects who may either love the couple… It want to kill one of them.

Thanks to Poirot’s friend who is a part of this wedding group? He knows all the attendees… Wait… Why are they still here?!? This is supposed to be the Honeymoon!… Oh. Right. Murder.

Also only people written in a late 30s setting Agatha Christie novel would invite both best friends AND potentially hate filled murderers along on the wedding slash honeymoon!

Worse? They have been entouraging behind the couple for awhile now. As we find out as they’re being stalked by… The Groom’s ex. Yes. Apparently he was going to marry another woman before his wife Linnet. Litterly swapped brides mid engagement.

Apparently this woman has been stalking the couple since she was dumped. Her strategy? Prove that the guy still loves her by… Following him, then staring silently at them at every event they go to. Because simply having security toss her is a no no.

Also? Someone in this group is feeding her this info and keeping her close. After all this is the 30s! Nearly a century before Social Media, let alone mobile smartphones was born. She’s being kept in the loop by someone.

Oh. When we first find out they’re married? They meet Poirot for the first time. Despite being in the same nightclub six weeks ago? They didn’t see him. Anyway he saves Linnet from a random Asp.

Hercule Poirot. So he doesn’t stop the Nemean Lions… He does out his cane down and deter random attacking Asps. Also I’m betting this will be Chekov’s Asp and it’ll come up again later.

They want to hire Poirot to investigate the jealous ex fiancee. Poirot tells them point blank that he’s unable to do anything. No crime has been commited. But they insist it’s coming to the point she’ll do something unhinged.

Turns out? They’re not wrong. Deciding to try and rationalize with her himself, Poirot talks to the woman. Only to find a most obsessed woman in terms of convincing the married man to leave his wife for her.

Except we are now left with hints he can’t leave her as she’s the rich one of the marriage. Which leaves open the thought of who is about to die in this movie. I’m betting Linnet as she does seem to be the intersection of Greed Blvd and Psychotic Ovession Street.

We find out she loved that guy since he first met Linnet back in school. When they both were in a production of Anthony & Cleopatra (prequel to the 60s Italian ancient exploitation popcorn muncher movie Herod The Great).

She played Cleopatra… Until Linnet was cast as Cleopatra. They’ve been Ninja High School fighting for the same guy ever since. Ugh.

But that’s not the worse. She decides to show Poirot her contribution to the growing game of Clue going on. Her shiny micro .22 caliber revolver. The so called ladies handgun.

Deciding she’s a genuine threat, Poirot tries to convince the couple to end their honeymoon now. Retreat back to the UK, lock themselves in Linnet’s manor, and have the crazy stalker arrested for trying to kill someone.

Except Poirot’s friend derails it all by listening to the crazy woman, and relocating the Honeymoon onto an Egyptian Nile cruise ship. At behest of said crazy woman. Dressed up as Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra.

Well. Great. I didn’t know Agatha Christie had an obsession with killing people in Trains & Boats… All we need is a Plane & Bus kill and we complete the circle of public transit kills! I can’t wait for Kenneth Brannagh’s Murder On Pan Am Flight 7 and Death On The London Busline…

So it’s time to see who dies. As the suspects are all crowded on this giant Nile cruise boat… Also? Will Poirot chew his pal a new one for being conned by the crazy woman? Guess we find out… Tomorrow.

I’m pretty sure it won’t be another death by group like last time. We should have just the one killer yes? And probably a hefty larger caliber bullet to kill with than the shiny .22 already seen. See you.

FOX Death On The Nile 2022 Movie Review Part 1

At Last! Katherine!
Remember how we were teased Poirot’s lost love Katherine briefly in Orient Express? Great news! We start the movie with a young Poirot. Fighting on the Western Front of Belgium in 1914.

His keen attention to detail turns what should have been a suicide squad mission into a success. They take over a German trench line thanks to Poirot’s future detective skills.

However his Captain? Completely chuffed by Poirot’s and skills, walks into a German trap to deter soldiers rushing their position, killing him.

We find out that Katherine is a front line nurse Poirot fell in love with. We also learn that she loves him, and nothing will stop her from marrying him…

Sigh. Feels like a sad ending is coming. Also? I’m pretty sure this murder in the movie ties into these events. Otherwise Brannagh heard us fans clamoring for Katherine screen time and voila!

Yes. I’m certain the actress teased in Orient Express reprised her Katherine role for Nile. Sigh. Even if Brannagh as Poirot is done? Id love a trilogy of Alternate Reality movies. Set in the Early 20s. Where Poirot & Katherine solve murders together.

Yes yes. I’m sure that’s not Agatha Christie canon. But I’m dying. I’m willing to bend Canon a lot more now in my dying years. Just seeing her actress have at least one full movie to shine? That’s enough.

So we are now in 1937 London. World War II is but a short distance away. This has Poirot dropping in at the nightclub of a friend to treat himself to a dessert tray after returning from a murder case. A case seemingly done in Egypt.

This whole sequence seems to be here just to introduce the suspects and victim of murder to come. But strike one for this movie? This might club scene drags on seemingly forever!

While our introductions to the suspects in Orient Express flowed better, and felt more natural. We ran into them as Poirot had to board the train to get back to London for an urgent case. This…

I know we are meeting the important figures of the case. But it feels like it’s drawn out. Especially the couple dirty dancing on the floor with the most entertaining music sequence. Yeesh. Eat your heart out Patrick Swayze!

We know a few things from the padding. We know that the young lady who is getting married in Egypt kinda fell hard for her man… Who is probably going to be a jerk or womanizer.

We know she’s friends with Gal Gadot. And she asks her to May be hire her soon to be husband on this important job. We know the husband after meeting with Gadot dances with her. And if we find out they had sex later? Let’s try not to be shocked.

Also. No shock. Poirot is often cut to starring. Apparently absorbing all this info for later. Then he goes super OCD when his dessert tray (with micro bite sized desserts) came as 7, not six! He then sends one ba… NOT THAT ONE! IT’S THE TOP OF HIS PYRAMID!!

So. Like Orient Express he’s OCD again with his food. This time it isn’t mis sized eggs. It’s lining dessert dishes to form a pyramid. Sigh. Anyway six week time jump to Egypt and the Nile.

We already know that Poirot is on vacation. It says so on the back of the DVD case. Great because suddenly there’s no set up. It’s just six weeks later and he’s on vacation.

Irritated by a random person flying a kite while on top of the pyramid behind the Sphinx, we find out that this guy is a friend of Poirot’s. And he will probably aid in the case. Like his other friend did in Orient Express.

So that brings us to Egypt. Tomorrow the case starts promptly as they all get on the Nile cruise ship… And maybe someone dies? We shall see. Tomorrow. See you.