Having watched several adaptations of one of Agatha Christie's best novels (and my personal favorite, too), all ranging from decent to terrible - I recall one with Sylvester Stallone's brother set in the African savanna (?) - this is probably the most faithful and effective.
Production values are solid, the soundtrack atmospheric and the cast fine, with the always excellent Sam Neill and Charles Dance; Emily Blunt-lookalike Maeve Dermody gets the most screentime as Vera. I also appreciated that the ending, while not identical to the novel's, is consistent with it - I've always found it much stronger than the lighter one Christie herself wrote for the stage play.
There are a couple of minor missteps here and there: for example, I miss the characters trying to gather clues about future threats from the creepy poem. And showing in the prologue a perplexed actor hired to read the famous sentence against the guests, as he believes it's for a play? Way to make it less creepy. It worked so much better as the mysterious, unidentified voice of doom.
Still, this is minor stuff. A fair adaptation.
7,5/10
Production values are solid, the soundtrack atmospheric and the cast fine, with the always excellent Sam Neill and Charles Dance; Emily Blunt-lookalike Maeve Dermody gets the most screentime as Vera. I also appreciated that the ending, while not identical to the novel's, is consistent with it - I've always found it much stronger than the lighter one Christie herself wrote for the stage play.
There are a couple of minor missteps here and there: for example, I miss the characters trying to gather clues about future threats from the creepy poem. And showing in the prologue a perplexed actor hired to read the famous sentence against the guests, as he believes it's for a play? Way to make it less creepy. It worked so much better as the mysterious, unidentified voice of doom.
Still, this is minor stuff. A fair adaptation.
7,5/10