Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
11 Sep Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
Useless Cushions
I could have put up with the silly detectives and their dated witticisms. The similarly dated use of technology… I could have overlooked the cheapness throughout, if they had only preserved the core element of a Christie mystery: we have to be surprised in a very special way at the end. We don’t just find who is the murderer; we know there will be one. It has to cleverly outwit us, and everything we assumed impossible.
Here what we have is a dinner party, which we later find has three unknown affairs. Any of them when revealed could have been the fulcrum for forcing a reinvention of all we knew.
No, what we get is standard TV fare, where someone is revealed but with no Christie unravelling of reality.
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Ted’s Evaluation — 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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