Console best movie i've ever seen.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

aramis-112-804880 As with Jeremy Brett's "Sherlock Holmes"; Peter Davison's "Campion"; and Joan Hickson's "Miss Marple" stories, "Poirot" started out with a big budget and good intentions, to faithfully reproduce Agatha Christie's Poirot stories for a society too lazy to open a book.Naturally, "Poirot" had to be altered in places in the change from one medium to another. Unfortunately, as the series moved into novels, it made unnecessary changes. For instance, "Peril at End House" from the early days did an admirable job (with slight alterations) and while it's one of my favorite Christie books it is also one of my favorite "Poirot" dramatizations. Unfortunately, the series grew darker and even changed some of the endings, using different characters as the murderers! However, the producers of "Poirot" made one improvement over Christie. Dame Agatha's Poirot stories started in 1920 and ended in 1975, a span of 55 years where society changes but Poirot doesn't, even though he started out as a retired police detective! When his last mystery appeared he must have been more than 100! Wisely, the "Poirot" series remains set in the 1930s. "The Clocks"--set in 1963--is now given the more exciting setting of Dover on the verge of the second world war, with Hitler across the channel.Another improvement is this: in the original book, Poirot proves his adage that with all the facts one can find the solution without leaving one's chair. This leaves most of the foot slogging to an MI-5 agent (here, altered to be the son of Poirot's old pal Col. Race) and Poirot rarely showing any life. Here, Poirot is summoned from his chair in London and has to go to Dover and interview all the people himself.Apart from these cosmetic changes, the story remains remarkably faithful for a later Poirot. Furthermore, it's beautifully shot in a way almost reminiscent of the earlier Poirots, when he bumbled around with Hastings and Japp. Also unlike some of the later Poirots, the gratuitous swearing is reduced to one "bitch." If there's anything more I didn't hear it.It even has fascinating shots that are supposed to be the secret tunnels dug beneath Dover Castle. Whether they are or not, it's still interesting to think that existed during the war.

grantss Hercule Poirot is approached by a friend, Lieutenant Colin Race of the Royal Navy, to help investigate a murder. Lt Race works in a secret base under Dover Castle. His colleague and girlfriend died while investigating a German spy ring and in his investigations of the ring he stumbles across a murder. A body has been found in the house of a blind woman, Ms Pebmarsh, but nobody, including the blind woman, knows his identity. Lt Race is convinced the murder is linked to the spy ring. The chief suspect is a typist, Sheila Webb, who discovered the body. The more Poirot delves, the murkier things seem.Interesting, intriguing story with some great twists and red herrings. Has the usual murder mystery element but adds a military and espionage angle, which makes things more interesting. Not perfect though. The best Poirots are the ones where you have enough information to work out the murderer yourself, if you think hard enough. This is one of those where you don't know enough - the backstory that informs the plot is hidden until the very end. Still quite interesting though.

surangaf This episode, while extremely well made technically (art direction, camera work, sound, etc.) and well acted, leaves a very bad taste in the mouth on several counts.Criminal mystery, or rather mysteries, are depended on coincidences to carry out, and are solved through coincidence.Poirot basically gets two girls to find the crucial evidence that unwittingly incriminates their father and only parent. That they can be made to search for evidence, and then can find it, are all by chance. In other words, it is solved quite by chance, in rather shoddy fashion, and not by "grey cells". But in spite of this evidence and its finding being key to solving the cases, all of this is barely on screen, compared to less important things and characters. Girls are not heard of again, after Poirot makes use of them.On top of that, Poirot and his friends, engage in simplistic moral posturing, that include actual speeches. Story and characters are morally complicated and they could have made a better episode wherein all the moral complexity is highlighted, if not explored. Noticeably camera do not focus on Poirot's reaction when blind lady points out, in reply to his speech about results of an occupied country, that Poirot will not be fighting the war to prevent occupation of a country. Remember, according to this series, he ran from his country to England in during WW1, while her sons died and she got blinded, while going out of England to fight in a war that started to protect his country. A thinking viewer, even with obvious desire of adapters not to focus on any of that, cannot but feel contempt for Poirot's moral blindness. To make major character coldly blind and hypocritical is a great idea, but then to ignore these characteristics is not.

dennis_chiu1 "The Clocks" premiered in America on PBS' Masterpiece Mystery tonight, June 26, 2011, two years after its filming and release in the U.K. in 2009, and I must say that it was a thrill to watch. David Suchet dons the role of famed Belgium detective Hercule Poirot once again, and we are treated to amazing revelations regarding spies, national stakes for England before WWII, and a classic murder mystery set in the English seaside town of Dover.The adaptation by Stuart Harcourt, whom I previously berated for his foolish perversion of Hercule Poirot in "Murder on the Orient Express" (2010) into a devout Catholic, is much better two years earlier. The detours from the original Christie novel heighten the stakes of the story well, especially changing one of the main characters, Lt. Colin Cray, into the son of Colonel Race, a Poirot associate from "Cards on the Table" (2004) and the Christie novel "Death on the Nile". Another logical change made by Harcourt was the inclusion of Poirot in the interviewing of the witnesses and visitation to the scene of the crime. In the novel, Lt. Colin Cray performs most of the investigation. "The Clocks" novel may stand as one of Christie's greatest works for mixing facts with red herrings. The number and complexity of the clues are handled well in this adaptation.David Suchet is again magnificent in the role of his career -- meticulous, eccentric and insightful. These later editions of Poirot are void of humor and are filmed as dramatic thrillers, and have long lost the charm of the early episodes. However, watching Poirot is still as exciting to me as they were when it premiered in 1989. I find it hard to believe that Mr. Suchet has been playing Monsieur Poirot for over 20 years, but I hope he does it for as long as he can.