Director: Kenneth Branagh, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Penélope Cruz
An amazing cast, led by director Branagh (who plays the lead role as Hercule Poirot) sees the world’s greatest detective racing against time to solve a murder before tragedy strikes again on a rail line.
A plenteous train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the smartest, gripping and stirring mysteries ever told.
Everyone’s a suspect as strangers are stranded onboard a train. When an avalanche stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks, the mustachioed detective
arrives to interrogate all passengers and searches for clues before the killer can strike again.
There’s no shortage of culprits including Dafoe as a German professor, Dench as a Russian princess, Michelle Pfeiffer, a rich widow, Depp, a thuggish art dealer and Cruz as a depressed missionary.
Based on the best-selling novel by Agatha Christie, the new version of Murder on the Orient Express has a celebratory air as it pulls into the station, complete with attractive period clothes, remarkable sets and striking scenery.
Branagh (Henry V, Hamlet, Cinderella, Swan Song) delivers a classic mystery thriller that’s been decorated with sleek add-ons.
