The film is Kenneth Branagh’s third take on the detective, and according to critic Sean Burns, quite gloomy. “The fleet pleasures of [Agatha] Christie’s mysteries get lost in all the downbeat bombast.'
in the detective comedy sweepstakes.) But nobody goes to a Hercule Poirot movie to watch him be miserable over lost lovers and dead friends. The fleet pleasures of Christie’s mysteries get lost in all the downbeat bombast, with “A Haunting in Venice” being the most joyless of the Branagh films thus far, frog-marching the character through a grim case he doesn’t even want to be solving.
A hermit living alone in postwar Italy, Poirot is dragged out of retirement by his old friend, the mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver. She’s Christie’s cheeky self-caricature, famous for books about a Finnish detective who sounds awfully similar to someone we know. In one of Branagh’s characteristically bizarre casting choices, Mrs. Oliver is played by Tina Fey, whose jarringly contemporary line readings constantly undercut the period atmosphere.
Tina Fey as Ariadne Oliver, Michelle Yeoh as Mrs. Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot in "A Haunting in Venice."
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