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- 1982
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 57 m
- 1982
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 57 m
Summary Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
Directed By: Guy Hamilton
Written By: Anthony Shaffer, Agatha Christie, Barry Sandler
- 1982
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 57 m
- 1982
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 57 m
Evil Under the Sun
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Summary Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
Directed By: Guy Hamilton
Written By: Anthony Shaffer, Agatha Christie, Barry Sandler
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
61
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Evil Under The Sun is not, alas, as good as Beat the Devil, but it is the best of the recent group of Christie retreads.
Evil Under the Sun, the latest Agatha Christie whodunit to be given the all-star screen treatment, has nothing but style, but its style goes a long way.
Director Guy Hamilton's movie is rather more effective as an advertisement for Majorca than as a thriller, and the idea of Ustinov as Poirot remains more enticing than the reality, but you could do a lot worse. Think of it as a languid cocktail party with a terrific guest list. [22 Mar 1982, p.85]
Apart from cutting down the number of characters, Hamilton and scripter Anthony Shaffer have also had the audacity to switch things around in the inevitable denouement scene. Poirot points right away at the guilty party, while the true suspense is put into the how’s and why’s that follow.
Though director Guy Hamilton has tried to make the Christie formula more cinematic by trimming the number of characters and streamlining the plot, the picture is still rather uninteresting. Only the performances, the lovely location, and some Cole Porter tunes make it worth watching.
With Ustinov's energetic impersonation of Poirot and Anthony Shaffer's traditionally structured script, Death on the Nile offered a fair recreation of Agatha Christie's world, but this time Christie herself would rightly have disowned the film.
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