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Of all Christie’s detective novels, Murder on the Orient Express perhaps lends itself best to a blockbuster: it promises grand set-pieces, an opulent train cutting through rugged, snow-capped scenery, and a neatly contained roster of suspects ripe for starry casting.…
Given how littered it is by corpses, it’s remarkable the extent to which ghosts are absent from the murder mystery genre.
Aside from the plot ramifications – it’s tricky sustaining the whole “whodunnit” aspect when you have an incorporeal witness – it does tend to undermine the foundation of rationality on which the process of detection is built.…
Unlike Sydney Lumet’s 1974 adaptation, this is less a starry, lavishly-upholstered murder mystery than a modern-day blockbuster that just seems to be based on an Agatha Christie novel.…
