‘A Haunting In Venice’ Review: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Supernatural Dimension to His Hercule Poirot Series

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• jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I recognize that Christie isn’t exactly Shakespeare, but why adapt a book and change literally everything about it?

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallowe'en_Party

  It’s not in Venice, the house is not haunted, there’s no seance… I guess some of the names are the same?

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1. The jump scares were cheap and dumb, and very annoying.
  2. Branagh did a superb job of playing Poirot.
  3. Whyyyyyy so many dutch angles, fisheye lenses, and other cinematographical shenanigans? Ugh, annoying.

  I’d give this movie a 6/10. I really really wanted to like it, I love agatha christie adaptations but this one was not great.

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  • ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fair analysis. Feel like it needed to lean more into the horror side of things, although I can see that that might alienate some of the audience. Instead of all the camera angles and Poirot occasionally seeming doddery I’d have preferred if the audience experienced more of what he was seeing and hearing, make it feel more like there could be something supernatural going on.

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  • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What was with the silly moustache? I’m not familiar with the source material, is this part of the design?

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    • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh definitely. Poirot is a silly kind of character in the first place.

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• ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was a great movie. I don’t usually jump scare, but for some reason the chandelier scene did it for me. My wife had a few jumps scares in later scenes.

  Overalls great flick. I hope Kenneth Branaugh does more adaptions.

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