Post World War II in Venice, Italy a now retired Poirot reluctantly attends a seance he had been quite happy in exile and living alone. When a murder occurs he must revert back to being the famed detective once more.
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Ariadne Oliver his old friend shows up and demands that he comes with her to a seance for a young girl that committed suicide in a rather creepy house. The house that supposedly had the spirits of many dead children who used to live in it as an orphanage.
Poirot is very sceptical and does not believe in ghosts and hauntings or anything quite like that, he is very much a man of reason and that everything must have a logical explanation. He is even tested to the limits with his thoughts on this and that is one of the highlights of the film and plot.
While the plot in terms of the whole whodunnit theme I did guess that quite early on, but that did not spoil other parts of the story as you still needed to know the reasons behind it all. The thing with films like this they always paint the characters in different ways and you then get to see different aspects of them and some twists and turns are very impressive.
I found myself enjoying this film a lot more than Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, as I felt Branagh has managed to add more to the character and build suspense in a different way with this one. Adding in the more horror element and creepy children is always a bonus for making the scenes a little bit more on edge.
The performances were all good and added to everything else set up within the film, the haunting score as well another aspect of the suspense from start to finish and that made it a joy to watch. Michelle Yeoh just throwing in an impressive performance and Jamie Dornan offering a very different type of role. Tina Fey is always engaging and I felt as though young Jude Hill was a bit of a scene stealer!
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