5/20/2023 0 Comments Murder on the blue train poirot![]() ![]() Furthermore, many of the closeups are hand-held, an extremely poor choice of technique for a story set in the 1930s. There are no establishing shots of buildings, no wide shots of ballrooms and the like, and there are dozens upon dozens of off-center closeups. "Mystery of the Blue Train" has a pretty good Poirot plot with some colorful supporting players and a few effective performances, but it is so badly directed-no, ATROCIOUSLY directed-as to be a headache-inducing pain to watch. ![]() These were virtues they are sorely missed. Not only are Hastings, Japp and Miss Lemon gone (along with the fine actors who played them), but so is Poirot's Arte Moderne apartment building-and any reasonable sense of time and place. It's easy to tell this latter-day batch of Poirot adventures are not being made by the production company that turned out the hour-long episodes and the first group of feature-length TV movies with David Suchet. ![]()
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