Death on the Nile
Came out; 2022
Time; 2 hours 7 minutes
Watched: Hulu
Rating; PG-13 for violence, some bloody images and sexual material
IMDB Rating; 6.4/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring.
Tom Bateman as Bouc
Annette Bening as Euphemia Bouc
Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot
Russell Brand as Windlesham
Susannah Fielding as Katherine
Letitia Wright as Rosalie Otterbourne
Sophie Okonedo as Salome Otterbourne
Armie Hammer as Simon Doyle
Gal Gadot as Linnet Ridgeway
Rose Leslie as Louise Bourget
Emma Mackey as Jacqueline de Bellefort
Story Line.
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping Egyptian desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement
Thoughts;
This movie started off with the war, that was hard to watch and although I get why they put it in, the reference could have been done a shorter way.
This movie is beautiful and the scenery is just so pretty!
Throughout this movie you think, oh shit, she totally stole her man! I had a feeling it would come down what it did but it was so well played!
This movie is long and a bit dull but it's the slow burn with the who-done-it that makes it so worth it!
CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert
In
World War I, the young Hercule Poirot devises a strategy to help the
Allied forces reclaim land against the Central Powers, however he is
unable to stop his captain's death from a booby trap, which mutilates
Poirot's face. He is tended to by his lover, nurse Catherine, who
encourages him to grow his mustache to hide his scars. In 1937,
Poirot enters a club where jazz singer Salome Otterbourne is
performing. He witnesses Jacqueline "Jackie" de Bellefort
introduce her fiancé Simon Doyle to her childhood friend, heiress
Linnet Ridgeway, to offer him employment. Linnet hires Simon on the
spot, and sparks fly between the two to Jackie's discomfort.
Six
weeks later, Poirot is vacationing in Egypt when he encounters his
friend Bouc and meets his mother Euphemia, a renowned painter. Bouc
introduces Poirot to his friends Linnet and Simon, who have married
and are celebrating their honeymoon. The honeymoon is joined by
several guests: Linnet's longtime maid Louise Bourget; Salome;
Salome's niece and manager and Linnet's old classmate Rosalie;
Linnet's communist-leaning godmother Marie Van Schuyler; Van
Schuyler's nurse Mrs. Bowers; Linnet's cousin Andrew Katchadourian,
who is in charge of Linnet's will; and doctor Linus Windlesham, who
had been engaged to Linnet before she left him for Simon. Linnet and
Simon request protection from Poirot as Jackie has followed them
there, having become an obsessive stalker wanting to win Simon back
after their engagement fell apart.
Desiring
to escape from Jackie but not wanting to disrupt their honeymoon, the
couple opt to board the cruise S.S. Karnak with their guests.
However, Linnet admits to Poirot that she is paranoid and does not
trust her guests. During a stopover at the Abu Simbel, Bouc confesses
to Poirot that he is dating Rosalie, despite Euphemia's disapproval.
Poirot gives him his blessing, while Bouc encourages him to find
love. Poirot begins showing interest towards the charismatic Salome.
Linnet and Simon narrowly evade a collapsing boulder, and after
escaping a sandstorm, the guests return to the Karnak only to find
Jackie had also boarded. Linnet and Simon decide to leave the
following morning and share a final farewell with Poirot. An
intoxicated Poirot encounters Jackie, who is still adamant in wanting
to win back Simon; Poirot shares to her that he was supposed to be
with Catherine after the war ended, but she died from a mortar
explosion, which led to Poirot closing himself to romantic feelings.
While Linnet leaves to sleep for the night, Simon confronts and
insults Jackie, prompting her to instinctively shoot at his leg
before immediately feeling remorse and kicking her gun away. Bouc and
Rosalie bring Jackie to be tended by Mrs. Bowers, while Windlesham
tends to Simon's wound.
Louise
finds Linnet shot in the head the following morning and her valuable
jewel necklace stolen. Poirot, joined by Simon and Bouc, begin
interrogating the guests and unravel possible motivations. Jackie is
ruled out as the killer due to being monitored by Bowers all night.
Louise was supposed to leave Linnet's employment after getting
married, but Linnet forcefully ended her engagement to keep her as
her servant. Windlesham is revealed to be part of an aristocratic
family, but has given up his privilege to help people as a doctor.
Bowers was also from a wealthy family, but she and her workers were
evicted of their lands because of Linnet's parents; Poirot deduces
that she is not Van Schuyler's maid but her lover. Andrew had almost
let Linnet sign a reworked contract that would have embezzled her,
had it not been for Rosalie's intervention; he also possesses a
larger gun. Salome has a gun similar to Jackie's in her headdress.
Euphemia spots Linnet's necklace among her belongings and reports it
to Poirot, who begins suspecting her as well. Jackie's gun, the
murder weapon, is eventually found wrapped with Van Schuyler's
missing scarf and missing two bullets.
Poirot
gathers Bouc, Euphemia, Salome, and Rosalie, and reveals that he was
hired by Euphemia to spy on Rosalie to see if she is a suitable love
for Bouc. Despite Poirot's approval, Euphemia still denies to give
them her blessing to Bouc's distress, while Rosalie berates Poirot
for deceiving them. Louise is found dead in the water wheel, with her
throat slit and money found among her belongings. As tension raises
high among the guests, Poirot sees the shape of a possible witness
near blood splatter from Louise's murder.
Poirot
and Simon interrogate Bouc, who is bewildered at his own friend
suspecting him. Poirot deduces that Bouc had already found Linnet
dead; he stole her jewel necklace and placed it in his mother's
belongings to implicate her for stealing, thus giving him and Rosalie
freedom from her. He then witnessed Louise extorting money from the
killer before she was killed herself and threw his coat in the river
as it was coated in Louise's blood. Before he could reveal the
killer, Bouc is assassinated from afar; Poirot chases after the
killer and fails to catch them, only finding Andrew's gun left
behind.
Motivated
by the death of his closest friend, he and the crew of the Karnak
lock the surviving guests in the boat's bar, having solved the
murder. Poirot gets Andrew to confess that he had thrown the boulder
at Simon and Linnet as an act of desperation, but he is adamant that
he was not the killer. Poirot reveals that Simon is Linnet's killer,
with Jackie as the mastermind. They are still lovers, as they
arranged Simon's romance with Linnet so Simon would inherit her
wealth once she is killed. Having pretended to shoot Simon, she
managed to distract Bouc and Rosalie, while Simon used paint stolen
from Euphemia to fake his injury. He used the short amount of time to
kill Linnet, with Louise witnessing it, and then shot himself in the
leg with Van Schuyler's scarf as a silencer in time for Windlesham to
arrive. Simon later disposed of the murder weapon, while Jackie later
killed Louise and Bouc. Engaged in a standoff with Poirot and Salome,
Simon attempts to escape with Jackie, but Jackie, knowing there is no
escape for them, shoots through both of them, killing the two
lovers.
The
passengers disembark, with Salome admitting that she was interested
in Poirot before he showed his cold personality in his work. In
London, a clean-shaven Poirot visits Salome's jazz club to watch her
perform
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