I guess if you've really liked the more mainstream whodunnit movies down through the years--Murder on the Nile--The Last of Sheila--Clue--Murder on the Orient Express and are not expecting them to come to the level of Hitchcock mysteries (which aren't ALWAYS wonderful themselves,) this wouldn't be too awful. It's very beautiful. But the acting is ridiculously one dimensional and boring. Shannon, Craig, Curtis, Collette and Johnson just aren't able to make these characters come alive in anything but the most superficial way. The writing is weak and Christopher Plummer has some of the weakest. Lucky for the film that he has real depth as an actor.