Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
"Murder on the Orient Express" is set in the year 1934. The game is initially begins in Istanbul, while the remaining majority occurs within the carriages of the Orient Express, when it is blocked by an avalanche in Yugoslavia. However, the player has some opportunities to venture outside the train into the snowy exterior environment.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
On the negative side, Matthew Jacobs of "The Huffington Post" was impressed by the cast, but ultimately felt "Agatha Christie's whodunit has no steam." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" found that there were many dull moments and that the film was a needless remake. Richard Roeper of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film two and a half stars, and stated that he felt it focused too much on Poirot to the detriment of the other characters, adding, "Never let it be said the director misses an opportunity to place his star front and center, unfortunately relegating just about everyone else in the obligatory international all-star cast to a paper-thin character with one or at most two defining personality traits." Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of "The A.V. Club" rated the film a C+ and complained that Branagh's "erratic direction—more interested in cut glass and overhead shots than in suspicions and uncertainties—bungles both the perfect puzzle logic of the crime and its devious solution." Christopher Orr of "The Atlantic" said the film was "visually sumptuous yet otherwise inert" and summed up, ""Murder on the Orient Express" is not a bad movie per-se, merely one that feels self-indulgent and thoroughly unnecessary."