A good movie

Sidney Lumet has recently passed away and during his very long career, he has directed a few classics (12 angry men, Dod day afternoon, Serpico,...) and also a few stinkers (The wiz, Gloria,...). He made this movie already 40 years ago and, in my opinion, it belongs in his decent-but-not-really-great features. I mean, on paper, the whole thing sounded great as it was a prestigious adaptation of a famous book written by Agatha Christie with an insanely impressive all-star cast (Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York) so it should have been great. Eventually, it was a well made and entertaining flick but, to be honest, I wasn’t completely blown away. I mean, there is such a focus on all the great stars involved, they put more attention to give everyone a little bit of screen time instead of developping a really great story. As a result, like in most of Agatha Christie’s stories, I was hoping for a very smart and impressive conclusion in the climax but I thought it was actually rather underwhelming. Anyway, to conclude, even though I was expecting a little bit more from this feature, it was still pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10