Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

pyrotechnic67-889-392816 I gave up on this mess when they we 1/4 way through and had introduced at least 8 new characters in a remote family castle that all could have been guilty. Screams coming from a detached house, etc., etc, I haven't read the Christie book, went to the 'net to find out at where this thing was going and discovered the only thing in common with the book was the title. Liked Hickson more as Miss Marple as well. This one presents as nothing so much as being an old busy body who needs to mind her own business.

AgentSauvage It bemuses me that television writers believe they can 'improve' upon a story written by the best-selling author of the twentieth-century. Miss Marple did not appear in the original novel, so it was a bold stance to introduce her to this tale - that is perhaps the only way that the TV writer actually demonstrated some skill, by managing to inter-twine her among the other events. There is a truly excellent cast, floundering against a poor script, made especially bad by the necessity to introduce a character by the name of Evans. The original story is effectively mentioned in passing in a few of the key events from the original story, but that is as close this production gets to actually having anything to do with the real Christie story. In reality this is a new story by someone who just got so many elements wrong! I cannot classify this as 1 (awful) because the highly skilled actors do the best they can to pull off a reasonable performance, but this is not a good production. Julia McKenzie tried very hard but she just did not appear anything like the Miss Marple that Dame Agatha created, perhaps because her part was created by a television writer not the late, great mistress of crime fiction. 2 and a half out of 10 is the best I could give to this effort.

sandragregg-168-572719 It is very disappointing that the so-called "writers" of this film, and further more, all the other Julia Mckenzie renditions of Agatha Christie novels, think the can do a better job than the acknowledged greatest crime writer ever, by changing completely what she had written .... Even to the extent of including Miss Marple in a story which never included Miss Marple, not the only instance of this blasphemy. Please, if you want to pretend to be a writer, try for originality rather than half hearted plagurising of a legend. Please do not commit the same crime with Poirot as you have done with Tommy & Tuppence and Miss Marple. Thank you

nickjg This is so remote from Agatha Christie's original that it almost amounts to a caricature - if only it was that good! Part of the problem is one that dogs the whole series, that there is desperation to stuff the cast with celebrities, even if they have little experience of dramatic acting. Second, there is a determination to include so called 'issues' such as drug addiction, soap opera style romantics - one dimensional; relationships which are driven by plot rather than character. Then there is the overblown hysterical screeching which these people believe to be serious dramatic presentation. One difficulty for all adapters of the stories is that, whatever the quality of Christie's plotting, it works within its own world. They are locked into their period and the qualities and issues this writer has tried to foist onto them are completely anachronistic. The 'big movie' music and setting does not work- this is small village stuff. The attempt at film noire shows the limitations of the director- nothing builds or develops, the narrative thread is broken into twenty second bites which just come out as confused. this director should stick to small commercials. Last, but not least, Christie is tongue-in-cheek about her plots and they are always laced with irony and dark humour. In some of her novels she even introduces a novelist who is a send-up of herself. (Ariadne Oliver). This production has completely lost track of Christie's well developed humour and replaced it with crude and amateur posturing!