georgewilliamnoble

This must give Christmas Turkey a new meaning who ever thought this gastly horrible reimagining of the Agatha Christie masterpiece was a good idea as a Christmas evening treat must of been brought up only on humbug for this movie was a travesty not only of Agatha Christies much loved book but also distroys the memory of 20 years of hughly enjoyable TV entertainment in which David Suchet made Poirot his own. Here this reinvention is simply a horrible person it was all I could do to keep the TV set on to watch out this Christmas Special edition and I found myself seething at what this production had done to one of the very best TV shows of all time. The worst of the series by a epic mile and I just fear I may never be able to watch Suchet as Poirot ever again.

This is an astonishingly bad movie even for a B movie quickie. As history it is farsical as entertainment it is grindingly dull and full of errors and mistakes of every sort from roads through the badlands to very obvious stunt doubles the list goes on and on. Scott seems ambarrassed throughout and gives a pretty dreadful performance but the terrible scrip gives him almost nothing to work with. This is surely one of the weakest westerns ever put on screen I kept watching thinking there must eventualy be some kind of action but no this rank stinker wimpers to a conclusion with the most rediculious finale yet seen. Oh dear, at least the scenery is pretty good if totaly inacurate.

When a film needs a narration for no obvious reason you know yoou are in trouble and that is how this movie begins. Now it is clear from the first moments that this is a super low budget film wth some serious pacing issues waisting time on some humour and sub plots then when it does get to adventure part towards the end it is all very rushed. All that said and the script hardly helps this movie becomes far better when it goes under water where there is soome genuine drama as well as under sea beauty to admire. While no masterpiece thats for sure I found the fact that it had a let's make a movie while on a great holiday feel to it, I rather enjoyed it in the end,