Tony Hall

This is a travesty of a version of an Agatha Christie classic. Just about everything was wrong from changing the geography of Egypt, changing the layout of the Pyramids to turning the Nile boat into something resembling a Mississippi paddle steamer on a river four times the width of the Nice itself. The bizarre addition of a Louisiana blues band, and back story added nothing but confusion to the narrative. Even the main resolution of the mystery was so mumbled and mishandled that anyone not knowing the original story might fail to understand what was going on. Poirot as a character was younger and unrecognisable from the Christie original. What were the people responsible for this disaster of a movie thinking?