Ok, I have to write this review to counter all the reviewers blindly gushing in the movies brilliance. I would have really enjoyed this movie, I love a good murder mystery, but they're almost impossible to find. There's always a flaw. Dont get me started on Branagh's last remake and the insipid Knives Out.
The flaw in this movie is in the reveal. The whole aliby from the killers falls to peices because for it to work the guy needed a witness to the found dead body, in this case the American woman. Everything revolves around it, with so much effort from the accomplish to achieve this result.
BUT she was never meant to get the boat ride with the killer, she turned up at the jetty and forced herself on him, he seemed pretty put out by it at the time, it was impossible to plan her turning up.
So, their plan had to have a witness, but there had been no plan to have one. By having this scene it makes figuring out the actual killer impossible, and thats cheating the audience.
I really enjoyed the movie for what it was, but cannot give it a decent score based on such a huge part of the alibi basically being non-existent.
The flaw in this movie is in the reveal. The whole aliby from the killers falls to peices because for it to work the guy needed a witness to the found dead body, in this case the American woman. Everything revolves around it, with so much effort from the accomplish to achieve this result.
BUT she was never meant to get the boat ride with the killer, she turned up at the jetty and forced herself on him, he seemed pretty put out by it at the time, it was impossible to plan her turning up.
So, their plan had to have a witness, but there had been no plan to have one. By having this scene it makes figuring out the actual killer impossible, and thats cheating the audience.
I really enjoyed the movie for what it was, but cannot give it a decent score based on such a huge part of the alibi basically being non-existent.