Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Despite the lavish settings, some handy acting and dark theme portending something menacing (as all Agatha Christie stories should...) the movie falls short on so many levels. I said "handy" acting - not great, just acceptable. Glenn Close was not as good as I would have expected. In fact she seemed quite uncomfortable in her role and seemed to be working incredibly hard at her English accent. Max Irons was OK, but actually not very convincing as a "private eye" and the way the screenplay was built was somewhat confusing: who belonged to whom? Gillian Anderson was suitably OTT, but I felt that many of the actors were trying too hard. All in all, it lacked pace, it dragged and apart from the house, the direction was somewhat crooked.

When was the last time so many talented actors got together to create something so mediocre?It was pretty boring. Wasn't able to engage me in the plot. This is coming from a guy who loves mystery/detective movies. The production design and cinematography are pretty good though.Giving it a 1/2 star higher because it has a mind blowing ending.

I was thrilled to hear that Agatha Christie's books would be turned into a new series of films, however, this production is a massive disappointment. Everything in it is as beautiful and stylish as it is utterly pretentious and annoying. I never made it past the first 25 extremely frustrating minutes of this movie.

They say no movie beats reading the original book and in this case it's again a valid point. With a book well written you can use your imagination completely, on how the characters look and what their part is in the mystery. In the movie though you don't get that same sensation. I thought Crooked House was very slow and a bit boring if I have to be honest. I would rather play a game of Cluedo than watching this movie again. It's just more entertaining. The cast wasn't bad though, but the story being so slow they couldn't make this movie better. I do like Agatha Christie's books but her movie adaptions seems not as good to me. And by the way I saw the end coming from far. I'm not sure that would have been the case with the book.