Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot boards a glamorous river steamer with enough champagne to fill the Nile. But his Egyptian vacation turns into a thrilling search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

  • Released: 2022-02-09
  • Runtime: 127 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
  • Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Letitia Wright, Armie Hammer, Annette Bening, Ali Fazal, Sophie Okonedo, Tom Bateman, Emma Mackey, Dawn French, Rose Leslie, Jennifer Saunders, Russell Brand, Adam Garcia, Rick Warden, John Wolfe, George Jaques, Victor Alli, Jonah Rzeskiewicz, James Schofield, Susannah Fielding, Michael Rouse, Alaa Safi, Orlando Seale, Charlie Anson, Danny Hughes, Sam James Page, Eleanor de Rohan, Noel White, Niamh Lynch, Rosie Dwyer, Nari Blair-Mangat, Sid Sagar, Brenda-Jane Newhouse, Rhiannon Clements, Daniel Cook, Heider Ali, Hayat Kamille, Crispin Letts, Rachel Feeney, Sarah Eve, Aron Julius, Francis Lovehall, Stacy Abalogun, Naveed Khan, Katie Smale, Kemi Awoderu, Lauren Alexandra, Nikkita Chadha, Nadine Leon Gobet
  • Director: Kenneth Branagh
 Comments
  • gip-30210 - 1 June 2024
    Overall, a fun adventure 'who dun it' that's definitely worth the watch!
    I see a lot of reviews here comparing this movie to the book... just don't. It's not intended to be true to the book. That said, I do think it's natural and difficult not to compare the two. Luckily, I haven't read the book and found the movie enjoyable.

    The ending was definitely not a typical one. Most people wouldn't have seen it coming. I actually did, but out of pure luck! I had watched an Agatha Christie play the night before, and a similar ending led me to suspect 'who did it.'

    The acting was pretty good, not sure why some people are bashing it. I'll admin there are a few moments where directing or story couldn't been made a bit better with a tweak here and there but nothing major.

    Hercule's moustache could use an upgrade; it's noticeably fake at times. A lot of the backgrounds were green screen or CG, but the CG itself wasn't bad. The 'too perfect' studio lighting is to blame-it just didn't look natural. Perhaps less clean and more gritty would have made this movie a bit more interesting from a cinematography perspective.

    Overall it was great and a fun 'who dun it' adventure that's definitely worth the watch!
  • AbyBerry - 4 March 2024
    Seriously?!!! Is this really an Agatha Christie thing?
    What was this I just watched?

    I am a very VERY HUGE FAN of Agatha Christie novels, I read them, some of them more than once, I watched most of the adaptions, and saw the Poirot & Miss Marple series a couple times, so excuse me for my frustration about this so callaed an Agatha Christie movie.

    • The story line, which is different from the book, I don't know what made them think that they are able to change the story and still be as good as what Agatha originally wrote?


    • The acting is very poor, starting from Kenneth who couldn't convince me for just a moment that he is poirot! Why didn't they just let David Suchet do, the role? Or maybe another actor who suits andanthe manages the role better?


    And what is Gal Gadot doing in this film? Smiling? Seriously? Couldn't they bring someone who can acts a little better?

    • The cinematography is bad! Like a cheap 3D game.


    • Unnecessary obscene scenes, like the dancing scene in the beginning, and the Cleopatra scene. Why did they add it? JUST WHY?


    I have more notes, but I think I said enough.. Don't waste your time, better read the novel, it's way way better! Or watch the Poirod series' episode of the same novel.
  • reggie-at-random - 1 January 2024
    Suchet 10, Branagh Nil
    Sorry...Branagh's face fungus just cannot compete with Suchet's brilliantly obsessive mustachios, his exquisite wardrobe, his precise movements and extremely exact methods. Ridiculous to even imagine one could improve upon such a perfect portrait.

    But then this "adaptation" largely and uselessly stretches any of Christie's excellent book plot into some sort of dreary pace that, when interrupted with commercial TV, genuinely makes you forget what your were watching and prompts one to simply turn it off.

    However in order to satisfy your curiosity as to how it should have been done...check the Suchet version OR ... go read or re-read the book. MUCH more satisfying!!
  • becky-92346 - 29 December 2022
    Predictable and boring.
    Death on the Nile (2022) follows a group of people who, upon boarding a boat, witness a murder. One man on the boat is famous detective Hercule Poirot, who aims to find the culprit. This film is such a disappointment. The sense of mystery was nearly non-existent and it's very easy to guess where the plot is going. Overall it's just a very dull watch.

    By far the worst part of this film is the visuals effects, which is a shame as the cinematography is mostly pretty good with some nice colour palettes and framing. The use of CGI is way too poor to the point where it's incredibly distracting, it's also used way too much. Nothing looks real and the whole film looks so artificial. Also, the editing is quite clumsy at times too.

    There really isn't much to talk about in terms of score and sound design, there isn't anything going on that adds to the experience of watching the film. The score is hardly used and so dull.

    I found a lot of the characters very irritating, and I don't really like any of them. None of the characters have any life to them and the actors give really average performances. I understand he is the director, but I'm really not a fan of Kenneth Branagh as Poirot, I feel like there's a lot of better actors for the job. Also, I don't like Gal Gadot in this, and she's never really impressed me as an actress.

    The film opens with a backstory for Poirot's moustache, which doesn't set the tone and I just find it ridiculous. The pacing is messy and not much interesting happens, there is no tension and therefore it's not engaging in any way. It lacks so much substance and feels incredibly shallow, it also wasn't smart either. I guessed the reveal about 15 minutes in, and it's so so predictable.
  • HafizhMaulana21 - 30 November 2022
    Poirot is better vacation only than handling the case of a young couple
    Hercule Poirot, who is on vacation in Egypt, must intervene in handling the murder case that happened to a young couple during their honeymoon. Everyone who was in Egypt had a bad relationship with the couple.

    Death on the Nile is the second film for Kenneth Branagh to direct the novel by Agatha Christie to the big screen. Death on the Nile is supposed to be an interesting and dense story of mystery, but the performance in this film feels sluggish. Death on the Nile here is a little different from the plot of the novel. Instead of being able to present a dense mystery story, this film has too much lip service in portraying the character of Linnet Ridgeway. The conflict of the story presented does not feel that it has a strong foundation to raise the conflict that is happening. The storyline feels widened so that it is not centered on a single conflict to be built. The conflict also doesn't have good enough emotions so the running of the story doesn't have a good emotional side. All of these are also not supported by strong and dense dialogue. The dialogue between the characters feels so bland that no expression is depicted.

    During the two-hour run of the film, this film does present a story plot that does not perform optimally. Especially with a variety of slightly different characters performed from the novel. Of course, this film has a fairly simple ending to execute Poirot's climax in closing the case.

    Just like the previous film, even though it has presented a series of well-known casts, in fact, it has not raised the mystery story of Death on the Nile. Gal Gadot is indeed able to display the graceful and dazzling character of Linnet Ridgeway. The rest of the cast didn't actually play badly. Their performance is still worthy of appreciation.
  • gilleliath - 25 October 2022
    let the moustache do the talking
    Of all the many re-treads lately, the much-adapted Poirot novels are, so I thought, one of the least unwelcome. They have realised, at least, that one of the keys to them is a good-quality, starry cast, and they have done their best to assemble one here. However, they don't make starry ensemble casts like they used to. The CGI locations, along with Poirot's graphic-novel moustache, give it a cartoony feel - any actual location shots give the impression of being entirely coincidental, and certainly did not require the participation of the cast. Putting the murder's back story at the front, taking up the film's first half hour, pretty much eliminates any dramatic tension: it is obvious who the killer must be.

    Of course, it also suffers from the creeping wokeness that afflicts everything today. It's not just the contrived inclusion of black women characters: it's the fact that they're the only admirable people on the boat, and so wise that even Poirot stands in awe at them. And their anachronistic 50s blues-jazz, a keynote of the film, becomes very irritating.

    But the worst fault is that Poirot films stand or fall by the actor playing Poirot and - sad to say - Branners isn't very good. He completely lacks both the whimsical eccentricity the character needs, and the larger-than-life presence of Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov or even David Suchet. He's just a bloke, with a serious expression, a big brain and a silly moustache.
  • iborisovaib - 8 October 2022
    I came for Agata Cristie, I got wokeness
    Why everyone nowadays is trying so hard to make every movie representing the modern reality? Seriously? Adapting something the plot of which is set in the 1930s and add lesbians, all female crew, blm and ridiculing the greatest detective of all time for no reason exept he's a white male doing his job? Agata Cristie's books are magic, a chance for our own little brain sells to work, why do you think we need a love interest for Poirot? Did the screenwriters believe that they can improve one of the best selling authors of 20th century? I'd have appreciate it more if they just stuck to the book. The movie is trying so hard that it's ridiculous.