Review of Death on the Nile (2022) by Fuad_Rmnm — 11 Mar 2022

Great movie but it could be greater!?

Great movies but just okay for the mystery crime movies. In my POV, Death on the Nile (2022) should be greater than the previous movie Murder on the Orient Express (2017) which is based on the novel of the same author by Agatha Christie. I've had some expectations based on the excellent quality of Murder on the Orient Express (2017) which was directed by the same director, Kenneth Branagh. Apparently, their quality is different for me as someone that didn't read the novel or watch the early novel adaptation before. Death on the Nile (2022) is directed through 2 hr 7 min with the cast named Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, and Letitia Wright. Emma Mackey as the new cast is one of the reasons why the movie is intriguing. I've entertained too through the character's thick accents and their fancy words.

The pros of this movie are the great story and actors, the entertaining genre as a mystery crime movie, and the insightful movie. The story is semi-predictable for me which half of my hypothesis was right but still not the entirety right. The actors are really great, especially Emma Mackey who really stole the show as new cast and Kenneth Branagh is always excellent as the old cast of Hercule Poirot. The genre is one of my typical which is entertaining to analyze and makes a hypothesis about problem-solving. The movie is really insightful for informative details of the storyline and well-interpreted for social knowledge about the Bourgeoisie society. The cons of this movie are the narration of every character seems didn't convincing enough as the murdering motives and the cinematography seems pretty dull. The narration of every character must be convincing enough for a mystery crime movie and sadly it didn't. The cinematography is pretty dull and unrealistic visual through a poor green screen which may be because of low budget production. Overall, Death on the Nile is a mediocre movie and still worth watching if didn't expect anything for mystery crime movies.