Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

ma-cortes This 1974 rendition regarding a known plot , as ten people are invited to a desolate island by a mysterious host. Upon arriving, a strange voice recording accuses each of them of a murder committed in the past. And then someone begins to kill them one by one, choosing his methods from a grisly children's poem that hangs in every room of the house...set in remote Iran shot by Peter Collinson with great cast as Charles Aznavour , Maria Rohm , Adolfo Celi , Elke Sommer , Stephane Audran , Alberto De Mendoza , Richard Attenborough , Teresa Gimpera , Rich Battaglia and Herbert Lom . Based on a popular novel and subsequent stage play by Agatha Christie about a unseen killer who sequentially knocks off the visitors . Agatha Christie tale of 10 people invited to an isolated place , hovering around mouthing chunks of exposition while waiting to get murdered . The guests discuss and argue each other , only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one . Just before the gripping climax of the film , you will be given sixty seconds to guess the killer's identity! The film will pause and on the screen you will see clues to help you decide who the murderer is...but the person in suspect is always the person who is murdered next . There is no way for any of them to flee , so they set about attempting to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding.Whodunit in which have been invited ten people who are strangers to each other , when they are all gathered, they hear from their host that each one of them has in someway caused the death of an innocent person and that justice had not be served in their cases , the guests are being killed off one by one . A psychological thriller in which 10 strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated location off the civilization .This one absolutely mucks up from an isolated island mansion to a hotel deep in the Iranian desert . Passable third adaptation , this one totally mucks up the tale , the original script was much more faithful to the original Agatha Christie novel with the setting on an island and the original grim conclusion of the book ; however, producer Harry Alan Towers changed it at the last second when he realized that it would be cheaper to shoot in the Iran desert and Madrid and that the novel's ending is less marketable than Christie's happier resolution from the play version of the story . Excruciantly tense and so-so rendition with the usual characters but slowly paced . The whole cast overacts at times and playing cardboard roles against desert scenarios and a luxurious hotel . This medium-budgeted picture is a reallly slow with some interesting elements ; sticks with the original and classic version . It packs an evocative cinematography being shot in Isfahan , Iran, and temple Debob, Madrid , and Almeria , Spain . Suspenseful and intriguing score by Bruno Nicolai , including a catching leitmotif .The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Peter Collinson who made decent films until his early death as African rage , Earthling , House of Garibaldi street . This is one of the innumerable versions based on Agatha Christie famous novel . The best version (1945) resulted to be the classic by Rene Clair with Barry Fitzgerard , Roland Young , June Duprez , Mischa Auer , C Aubrey Smith , Judith Anderson and Richard Haydn ; furthermore , 1965 version set in Austrian Alps by George Pollock with Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lombard , Shirley Eaton as Ann Clyde , Fabian as Mike Raven , Leo Genn as General Mandrake as Stanley Holloway as William Blore , Wilfrid Hyde-White as Judge Cannon and Daliah Lavi as Ilona Bergen . And 1989 rendition ¨Ten little Indians¨ , switching from an isolated island to African landscapes located in the sabana , it was shot in South Africa by producers Avi Lerner and Harry Alan Towers directed by Alan Birkinshaw ,most actors are mediocre and unknown , though there are tree important players as Donald Pleasence , Brenda Vaccaro and Herbert Lom who had acted in a previous remake playing the doctor. Furthermore, a Russian version (1987) by Director: Stanislav Govorukhin with Russia Stars: Vladimir Zeldin, Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy .

moonspinner55 Third film version of Agatha Christie's mystery whodunit (following 1945's "And Then There Were None" and 1965's "Ten Little Indians") has a seemingly disparate group of people flown out to an ornate but empty hotel in the Iranian desert by an unknown benefactor. Once settled in, the group learns they do have something in common: at one time in their lives, each was responsible for the death of another person--and none of them paid the price for their crimes. Not badly made or cast, just deadly dull; even the curious new location isn't used to any advantage. Peter Collinson directs without invention or energy. Script by Erich Kröhnke, Enrique Llovet and Peter Welbeck (a pseudonym for Harry Alan Towers, who also produced) is awfully similar to the screenplay for the 1965 version, coincidentally also co-written and produced by Towers. NO STARS from ****

acidburn-10 This is the third adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel "And Then There Were None" and first in colour, but sadly continues to tumble further downhill with each version, the original two were very decent, but this one falls short in so many ways and is a bit flat.This time the setting is at a deserted hotel in the middle of a desert, which seems a bit strange as why would anyone want to stay at a hotel in the middle of a desert but somehow it does work in this. This version seems to be more of a remake of the previous remake that came out in 1965 as the dialogue is almost identical and some of the names are the same.Okay some of the aspects that I did like about this movie are the gorgeous setting and the spooky hotel surrounded by ancient ruins which does add a touch a class to this movie and crafts a little tension around a movie that has very little surprises. But I think that what this movie could have done with is a more violence which could have really lifted this, but sadly without it, this version just quickly becomes boring and off paced.The cast this time round mostly just lacks chemistry with only a few exceptions. Charles Aznavour quickly became annoying and thankfully doesn't last long, Maria Rohm who plays a younger than previous versions maids, but breathtakingly beautiful and should have been used more another aspect of this movie that I didn't like is that the maid seemed more like one of the more interesting characters but is dispatched way too soon. Alberto De Mendoz who played the butler and the maids husband gave an okay performance but not memorable. Richard Attenborough also gave a decent performance as the judge and definitely a highlight of this movie, Stephanie Audran who plays the Hollywood starlet just seemed mostly bored but had a gorgeous accent, Adolfo Celi as the General was another forgettable cast member Herbert Lom and Gert Forbe both gave competent performances in their respective roles, Elke Sommer was okay as the female lead but her and Oliver Reed lacked the chemistry that could have lifted this and plus he just didn't seem interested just there for the money.All in all a pretty lazy and boring version of a great book, that lacks conviction and sadly it just seems to get worse after this.

Robert J. Maxwell I'm aware of three versions of Agatha Christie's novel, of which this is the last. No wonder it's been done and redone. What an exquisite puzzle she poses in her story. Ten strangers are drawn together in an isolated spot and one by one they all die -- all ten of them -- eight murders and two suicides. The solution is given in an addendum.The first version was in 1945 and is by far the best. Barry Fitzgerald and the rest of the cast captured all the black comedy. Directed by Rene Clair, it featured the exotic June Duprez with her sly eyes and the devilish Walter Huston effervescing to beat the band.Then there was "Ten Little Indians" in 1965, with the wooden Hugh O'Brien in the lead. Shirley Eaton, the shimmering blond from "Goldfinger" was fine, even as she writhed in heat, naked under the covers, while O'Brien salivated all over the bear rug, but it was dull. The story was taken seriously, which is the kiss of death, and the script introduces a fist fight so that O'Brien can be manly.This version is dull too, and even Richard Attenborough, a splendid actor, can't save the picture. In the original, the setting was an island. In the first remake, it was a mansion on an Alpine mountain top. In this one, it's a palatial hotel in the middle of the Iranian desert. (I'm skipping over a Russian remake which had a decent, stony, island setting but was otherwise as interesting as a hardboiled egg.) The setting is the best thing about this movie. Wow! What stone parties you could throw in this palace! The lobby is the size of the Roseland ballroom in New York. You could keep physically fit just be walking from one end of it to the other four or five times a day. The mezzanine hovers glitzily above it. The two-winged building goes on to rise to God only knows how many stories. And it all conforms to Islamic dictates -- every bit of the decor is non-representational. There are golden circles and vibrant blue Xs everywhere you look. And all captured by the photographer in Rococolor. It boggles the eye.Sorry about the cast, good as many of them have been, but they miss the mark here. You just cannot turn Agatha Christie's fantastic black comedy into a serious murder mystery. It makes everyone look foolish.Oliver Reed, as the putative hero, is among the worst. He speaks constantly in a deadly earnest, hoarse whisper. Nobody else does much better. I suppose the heavy weight of the directorial hand lay on their performances. Charles Aznevour does at least get to sing, or shout, one of his songs. And Elke Sommer looks as scrumptious as ever, although compelled by the script to scream too much and undress too infrequently. (Who directed this thing, anyway?) Attenborough's death scene is filmed in gargantuan close up as he turns red faced and chokes himself to death with his mouth open and his tongue protruding, as if making fun of what he's doing.Nothing much is made of the parallel between the deaths of the ten little Indians in the nursery rhyme and the deaths of the ten guests. In the original story, the figures were of ten little N words. In the first movie, they became American Indians. Here they are Asiatic Indians, maybe Sikhs, because they all wear turbans.What we wind up with is ten little characters wandering around with nothing much to say or do, in a building far too big for such an unimpressive society.