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Fun mixture of superficiality and logics
Many reviewers have talked about the good cast and their work in this movie, but I didn't find reviewers evaluating the soundness of the movie's argument. Either people did not seem to pay attention to the way the movie's assassinations were solved or they simply took it as it was without complains or contradicting the movie; this is impressive. I've seen several other reviews and Agatha's novel movies are the first products I found without much objections (if any at all). I also like very much all the cast's performances, but I got much more interested in the movie's logic. <
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>Then, I repeated the movie's end and some other scenes a few times to look for incongruence or flawed reasoning, it was fun. Besides I wasn't quite satisfied with the case explanation and I wanted to imagine how another one of the several murder suspects could still have done the crimes. However, the hero's (detective Hercule Poirot) logics to discover the bad guys stood to reason all along. It was rather the Poirot's assumptions about the suspects that were far out. For example, Poirot regarded one man (the Marxist) as a suspect just because he had been dishing out the killed victim. Poirot's basic idea to point anybody as a suspect was that a person could kill at the immediate chance of having a gun and nobody watching. Fortunately, most people don't kill that easily. Just look at a nation with gun rights like USA, which is relatively peaceful; despite so many news on crime this nation, it would be giant cemetery if people behaved as Poirot regards humans. <
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>Thus that was the characteristic off in the movie, people are assumed to behave in more violent ways than they really do and the real bad guys' plans are way too far out. Nonetheless, this same characteristic makes the movie even more interesting to watch, because everybody could be a waco over there but logics stands still and help solve the case. <
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>By the way, although most people have enjoyed this movie some stated that the former Agatha's movie (Murder in the Orient Express) was better. They didn't say quite clear why such preference but I guess it simply because two of the movie's characters (Poirot and the Doctor) spoke too many words in their mother tongues, French and German. I suggest you not to pay attention to those picky details, this movie was better than the Orient Express. This movie had fair jokes, much more light, several pretty and interesting scenarios in Egypt, a boat and England; the characters were less creepy and Poirot was able to prove his theory. The other movie (Orient's) is totally the opposite, everything takes place in dark scenarios within only a train (it was a saddening scenario despite being all luxury) and Poirot's case resolution was more awesome than at Nile's but could not provide real evidences. Yes, this movie was better. Just consider that virtually nobody is paying attention to the movie's logics (as they do in the other one) but rather to the scenario and cast.

EXCELLENT! SUPERB! A MASTER PIECE
EXCELLENT!! That's all I can say.... A masterpiece.. a "must have" in your dvd collection.