The ABC Murders
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| Prime Video | Release Date: February 1, 2019 |
Summary:
Set in 1933, an older Hercule Poirot (John Malkovich) receives letters threatening murder but the new Inspector (Rupert Grint) dismisses the Belgian detective's help in this three-part BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Suspense
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Jan 28, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The '30s period details are lavishly spot-on and Malkovich, with his graying goatee and thick-as-bearnaise accent, gives the character a haunted, beady-eyed intensity. It may be a bit leisurely paced for some, but armchair whodunit junkies will enjoy this workout for their "little gray Cells." [1/8 Feb 2019, p.85]
The Daily Beast
Feb 1, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Thanks to this engaging--and slyly timely--adaptation of Christie’s 1936 novel, it ably earns first-runner-up status. ... Poirot’s arrogance, of course, remains. Yet in Malkovich’s skillful hands, the detective is a more detached and interior genius, destabilized by his shaky professional standing and, also, by the long-ago catastrophe that made him who he is today.
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Jan 31, 2019
Season 1 Review:
An elaborately fleshed-out Poirot history is the most audacious aspect of this “ABC Murders,” which, as the original dictates, abounds in red herrings and overly broad supporting characters. ... No one will ever call Mr. Malkovich a minimalist, but he does strip away the customary flamboyance, thus making Poirot new.
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Jan 28, 2019
Feb 1, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The ABC Murders is Phelps’s most thorough teardown yet, and this time she’s so suffocatingly revisionist that what’s left isn’t really Christie at all. The insistence on making everything grimmer and grosser is almost comically complete. ... Phelps is so focused on her combination of chic malaise and sensationalism that she doesn’t give the actors anything human to play, or anything witty to play with.
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Collider
Jan 31, 2019
Feb 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
While everyone else is hamming it up playing monstrous psychopaths on an operatic scale, Malkovich wafts glumly from scene to scene, his facial expressions rarely more animated than someone trying to do long division in his head. ... It’s difficult to imagine what Phelps is trying to achieve by making her series so viscerally icky, and so intent on stirring things--and people--up.
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Oct 9, 2022
Lacks any charm Suchet's series has. Slow, depressing, uninspired, full of deconstruction BS.
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Jan 7, 2023
What a strange idea to make Poirot a catholic priest lying about is past. I said strange idea but in fact it is worst then that, it is a downright treason of the source material.
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