Crooked House (2017)

The film is based on a typical British texture. We watch the criticisms and passions between the rich and the detectives, from the caste system between the rich and the rich to be 'richer'. If a spooky house has a spell, it does not go beyond successful architecture. "Crooked House," which is aimed at updating the adaptations of Agatha Christie, continues to follow the "Murder on the Orient Express" vision that has been on the horizon over the past few months, but unfortunately continues to fail the East Express and not come out of the shadow of Christie's adaptations, which have already been regularly photographed until 2013.Theatrical dialogues can be successful in a 280-page romance. The character's black-eyed winker is exaggerated, and in some places it may turn out to be a readers' head in a rumble. However, a story with 11 main characters in a production that is close to 2 hours is already very difficult to be successful.Soon will the horn pass through the ear? Can we follow a Christie adaptation that will erase the traces of the past one day? So hard. Today's technology is so hard to get into and out of touch with - as long as the '40s are trying to be staged in character with a postmortem spirit. Well, it's not strange that such an adaptation keeps abrupt when there are serious differences between the rich of the '40s and the rich of the present.

Too many potential murderers, too little time to put them in the spotlight. You just can't justifiably make a feature film based on an intricate detective story like this. The audience doesn't get any chance to fathom all the motives and clues and is left with a bunch of freak characters who all have their reasons, but are each allowed so little screentime that the viewer wouldn't care less who has done it. Maybe it would have been better to just skip a few of the characters in order to develop the subplots with more breathing time. Or just make a mini series out of it.

One of the most faithful adaptations of a Christie novel I've ever seen. It was well cast, the production was beautiful, and I got the sense that it tried to stay true to the point of the book. It really drove home the way different types of ruthlessness and selfishness express themselves, and how that formed the killer. Who, of course, is not someone you'd suspect.

I was thrilled to hear that Agatha Christie's books would be turned into a new series of films, however, this production is a massive disappointment. Everything in it is as beautiful and stylish as it is utterly pretentious and annoying. I never made it past the first 25 extremely frustrating minutes of this movie.