Everything about it seemed flat and listless: paint-by-numbers adaptation, minimal intrigue (especially for a murder-drama), subdued, uninspired performances (despite an all-star cast), mindless action scenes. I should have known better than to watch this having watched Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. When Ridgeway is murdered suspicion naturally falls on de Bellefort but she has a cast iron alibi. Ridgeway stole him away from her and she seems intent on extracting some sort of retribution. The journey is soured by the appearance of Jacqueline de Bellefort, the ex-flame of Ridgeway's husband. The host is the extremely wealthy, recently married, heiress Linnet Ridgeway. Hercule Piorot is holidaying in Egypt when he is invited aboard a cruise down the Nile.
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