Russell Brand is cast effectively against type as a sad, bespectacled doctor and former beau of Linnet’s. Mackey (who has distinguished herself on TV’s Sex Education) gives some good crazy in an early scene where Poirot tries to reason with her and she flashes her.
That previous film sported more Oscar laureates, but this one might just have the deeper cast.
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If you know the 1937 Agatha Christie novel that this is based on or the 1978 movie that was made from it, you should know that this plays out quite differently. Maybe that $2 million diamond necklace that vanished from Linnet’s bedside table provides the motive. Except, Jackie can’t be the killer because shortly before the murder, multiple witnesses see her fly into a jealous rage, shoot Simon in the leg, and be shot up with morphine. She’s been stalking the wedding couple with a gun and acting unhinged, and sure enough, Linnet is found shot through the head while sleeping in her stateroom aboard the boat. Jackie was Linnet’s best friend and Simon’s fiancée until Linnet stole him away. Putting up a good front as a vivacious party host, Linnet is afraid for her life because Jacqueline de Bellefort (Emma Mackey) has crashed the festivities. Our murder victim is Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle (Gal Gadot), a wealthy socialite honeymooning with new husband Simon (Armie Hammer), who invites a vacationing Hercule Poirot (Branagh) on a Nile River cruise with the wedding party. (Case in point: Jackass Forever.) While films pitched at grown-ups are having trouble finding large crowds, I can tell you that Death on the Nile is beset by many of the same issues as its predecessor, and is also a more compact, more somber, and emotionally deeper work. Whether it will work the same way in the wake of the pandemic is a question - the only audiences that seem eager to come back to the theaters are the young people.
Following up the success of his Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh has taken the same approach to Death on the Nile by stuffing this deluxe murder mystery with a bunch of stars.
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