Murder on the Orient Express
- TV Movie
- 2001
- 1h 40m
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5.1/10
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Hercule Poirot, now in modern times, investigates the famous crime on the famed train with a modern twist.Hercule Poirot, now in modern times, investigates the famous crime on the famed train with a modern twist.Hercule Poirot, now in modern times, investigates the famous crime on the famed train with a modern twist.
Louis Chamoun
- Turk
- (uncredited)
Jason Croot
- Train Guard
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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- TriviaCarl Schenkel's last film.
- GoofsIn the next exterior shot after departure from Istanbul, a differently colored diesel locomotive is on the train. During the night scenes before the journey is interrupted, a steam locomotive is shown. Then when the train stops at the rockfall, the same EWS diesel is back on it, but now it's facing the other way (the EWS letters and the locomotive number 47744 have swapped places as seen from the same side of the train). Finally, when the journey resumes the next night, the steam locomotive is back.
- Quotes
Mr. Samuel Ratchett: Mr. Perot?
Hercule Poirot: Perot? Like the American Presidential candidate? Certainly not! The name is Poirot! Hercule Poirot!
- ConnectionsReferenced in David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010)
Featured review
A castrated modern telling of the Agatha Christie classic
Too updated for my tastes. I really liked the version with Albert Finney from 1974. Who can argue with Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins and Richard Widmark? I also think their dropping four of the participants in this modernized version really reduced it and their use of the Internet rather cheapens it. Searching by Google tells rather than slowly reveals. It made detective work far too easy.
Don't think me a purist. I thoroughly enjoyed the David Suchet version. Actually I thought it was one of the better "Poirot" scripts. I look forward to the Branagh version in 2017.
I will give this version five stars. It wasn't bad but the script took far too many liberties with Poirot's character and with the story. I've seen decent modern age Poirot before, like the Thirteen For Dinner from 1985. They knew what to update and what to leave alone.
Don't think me a purist. I thoroughly enjoyed the David Suchet version. Actually I thought it was one of the better "Poirot" scripts. I look forward to the Branagh version in 2017.
I will give this version five stars. It wasn't bad but the script took far too many liberties with Poirot's character and with the story. I've seen decent modern age Poirot before, like the Thirteen For Dinner from 1985. They knew what to update and what to leave alone.
- mike-ryan455
- Nov 24, 2015
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- Also known as
- Вбивство в Східному експресі
- Filming locations
- Istanbul, Turkey(on location)
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By what name was Murder on the Orient Express (2001) officially released in Canada in English?
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