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I think Timcito might need to get out of Florida
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Albert Finney's choice to chew the scenery is in line with the film he is in - it's full of HUGE performances from genuinely legendary actors - his performance is to stand out when opposite Lauren Bacall, nothing to do with race or nationality.
The thing to remember is that Poirot uses his eccentricity to get the best of the stuffy English aristocracy and nouveau-riche whom he tends to mix with. Essentially, he uses their xenophobia against them. The nicer or more honourable characters simply recognise him as a brilliant man in pursuit of justice.
In that way of course, he's a lot like Miss Marple - people underestimate her because she is an old lady, to their detriment, it's just one of Agatha Christie's tricks.
Incidentally, as far as I recall, Poirot in the books is much more like David Suchet's portrayal in the TV show than Finney's or indeed Ustinov's.
Of course - going back to the OP - the Poirot films are all about murder, so should be at least PG anyway, and we are simply talking about a classification here.
Belgium?! Africa, China?!
Sheesh...i say, SHAHEEEESH!!
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Of course, that's an actually interesting comparison... spoilers for an 80yr old story...
In the Finney classic, at the end, all the conspirators drink champagne and celebrate getting away with the murder of the child killing asshole... fine with me... but not really a modern sensibility.
In the remake, they all have agonising moral qualms, and although Michelle Pfeiffer does a great job of trying to sell it - but it doesn't work.
Also... how sure were they there were no other trains coming when they put a table across a tunnel mouth and put their backs to the tunnel?
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
My favourite of the three was definitely the newest, Nile is a fine movie though as well.
Enjoy
(But perfectly watchable shite, they're not the kind of shite which makes me turn them off before the end.)