This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Being huge fan of Agatha Christie's books and mystery movies in general, my attention was peaked when I was made aware of this movie's existence. Well it's alright ....nothing groundbreaking , just solid mystery movie and I daresay a pretty faithful adaptation. Perhaps too faithful! Some of the plot structures haven't aged well. It does feel a little artificial when Poirot rounds up the suspect and pinpoints the culprit. But it is solidly acted and wildly entertaining thanks to it's colorful cast. Peter Ustinov is probably my favorite Poirot!

There are many people on a ship stopping at different places.There are men dressed like Arabs with turbans playing violin music while people are eating on the boat in the dining room. Music sounds so fake when you look at the band. David Niven befriends Poirot. Niven is the most real character as a lawyer in this movie.People start getting killed and no one seems to know anything. There are a lot of stars in this and they all seem to be overacting. Angela Lansbury is one of my favorite actresses but not in this movie. She is loud, overdressed with jewels, constantly drunk and walks like a drunk in most of the scenes swaying from side to side.Mia Farrow is given Morphia whatever that is to me it sounds like morphine. She screams acts nuts and has to be taken back to her room. She is on the boat with a previous boyfriend who is married to some one else and had maniac outburst and speech.Bette Davis. She is dressed like a rich lady and loves her jewels. Her care taker is very bossy. Then there is the doctor who thinks he knows everything.By the time you hear from Poirot at the end you wished you had not wasted your time waiting for who done what and why.Peter Ustinov was not too bad but he was no David Suchet. Albert Finney played Poirot in another movie and he was worse then Ustinov. They all had fake accents in the Albert Finney Poirot you could not understand what they said.I have a lot of the Poirot series 13 seasons of episodes with David Suchet as Poirot. The stories are not mixed with nuts and drunks.They have more mystery & suspense. At the end Poirot explains to everyone who the culprits are in a sane way.

A later super-popular Agatha Christie adaptation, Death on the Nile (1978), hails from that wonderful period when multi-star movies were all the rage, both with producers and movie-goers. This one assembles a really outstanding cast, including Peter Ustinov and David Niven as the detectives, and the richly rewarding Mia Farrow, plus Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, George Kennedy, Maggie Smith, Jack Warden, Lois Chiles, etc, as the potential victims. No-one seems to have noticed that Miss Christie uses exactly the same plot device (admittedly with a cleverly convincing variation) that she employed in "And Then There Were None". Not that these quibbles matter very much when we moviegoers are treated to this opulently-filmed-on-location exercise in high-budget entertainment. The Anchor Bay DVD rates 10/10 with me. And it also carries some admirable extras.

I'm sure I found this at least amusing....tho not riveting...when it was new. But it pales when compared with the Suchet version in every way, and most particularly in pacing, which is excruciating. And the photography. Strained through a clotted scrim....what's with that? I found myself more taken with the costumes than the plot.....that cannot be good. And poor Ustinov has been so overshadowed as to be irrelevant.