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This is not Agatha Christie's anything. They took the bare bones plot (I don't think they were talented enough to come up with their own) and dressed it up with mediocre personalities, including that of Hercule Poirot, who now becomes a sad old man shooting melancholic looks after each event. The rest of his ebullient personality is now gone, dimmed. The genius of Agatha Christie's is that she takes you along with her in the journey of discovering the plot and the psychology of the characters is varied, designed to mesh together in a multi-colored puzzle. Here all the characters are either evil or miserable in some way. They've tried to turn one of her novels into a 'modern' philosophic drama and it falls flat. That's what infuriates me. Some other comments are saying that Poirot was ridiculous anyway, and enough with the Art Deco backgrounds... But that's how it was written by Agatha Christie in the 1930's! She made Poirot absurd, ridiculously fussy. A foreigner, an outsider who analyzed with laser precision the prim and proper English middle and upper classes. Saying that it shouldn't be so is like saying that Shakespeare's plays are filled with ridiculous characters in tights and puffy shirts who talk funny. Enough with the historical arrogance. We don't need to "assimilate" every other generation the same way we don't need a mini mall and a McDonalds in every corner. Respect the work and character of each generation and, if you want, make up newer, better stuff. They knew that by calling it "Agathat Christie's XXX" they'd get people to bite. Another thing. The writers add the dramatic tension they took away from the flat (= Hollywood standard psychological themes du jour) characters and they dump it into the settings (all dingy, even the supposedly pristine apartment of Poirot and a rich lady's manor), the scenes (gratuitous vomiting of blood by two characters, plus another vomit of eggs, a corpse taken away without a blanket) and the dialog (lots of seemingly meaningful looks by the characters, little in the way of actual dialog). Overall, a depressing, mediocre mess that capitalizes on the name of a successful, dead writer.