When Colonel Miller (Mark Strong) from MI6 shows up to take over the case, the anonymous kidnapper calls and demands $60 million delivered to the very unassuming Arc de Triomphe in Paris in exchange for their captive. There’s Francisco (Enrique Arce), a former soccer player and lothario who announces, “I have made love to 10,000 women” the bride Claudette, who was forced to sign a suffocating prenup his sister Saira (Kuhoo Verma), who loves attention Countess Sekou (Jodie Turner-Smith, so much better than this) and the colonel (John Kani), who the Maharaja denied a promotion. The Spitzes start clumsily questioning the suspects, each one more boring than the last. Set at a stunning resort, the start of the movie is “The Slight Lotus.” Colonel Miller (Mark Strong, center) is one of an ensemble of not-eccentric-enough characters in “Murder Mystery 2.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett CollectionĪt the ritzy ceremony, complete with fleeting choreographed dancing and an elephant, the Maharajah’s bodyguard is murdered and the Maharaja is kidnapped. They’re summoned to the luxurious private island of their uber-rich friend from the last movie, the Maharaja (Adeel Akhtar), to attend his wedding to girlfriend Claudette (Mélanie Laurent). This time they’re pros like Hercule Poirot. Nick (Sandler) was an NYPD officer and Audrey (Aniston) was a hairdresser. In the first film, the Spitzes (who, in an early indicator of James Vanderbilt’s script’s level of humor, a pilot calls the Sh-tzes) stumbled into amateur sleuthing like Miss Marple. Rated PG-13 (violence, bloody images, strong language, suggestive material and smoking). Everyone is trapped and Poirot must solve the case before the murderer strikes again.Running time: 89 minutes. One of their fellow travelers is stabbed and shortly thereafter the train becomes snowbound. A group of seemingly disparate travelers bundle aboard the famous transcontinental railway. Murder on the Orient Express is one of Christie’s most enduringly-popular stories. This style of mystery fiction, along with the rise in popularity of the crossword puzzle, made the 1920s and ‘30s the literary Golden Age of Detective Fiction. While she would push the envelope on these rules throughout her career, she earned a reputation as a fair (if tricky) puzzle-maker. She generally subscribed to the tenets of the Detection Club, rules which prevented ‘cheating.’ For example, detectives weren’t allowed to solve the mystery because of an accident, and the murderer had to be a character from the outset. She also had a knack for creating seemingly impossible puzzles that were somehow just barely plausible. Whether they feature Poirot’s fastidious perfection, Miss Marple’s busybody meddling, or Tommy and Tuppence’s ditsy but darling snooping, Christie’s highly structured stories were (and are) constant bestsellers. The sleuths employ their individual techniques to sniff out the perpetrator before a big reveal at the end. Her list of works is stunningly long and she holds the title of the world’s longest-running stage play with “The Mousetrap.” This prolific Dame of the British Empire lived a half a dozen lives-nurse, pharmacist, pianist, archaeologist, surfer-before becoming a full-time writer.Īgatha Christie became known for tightly plotted murder mysteries, usually featuring one of her signature detectives. It’s said that her books have only been outsold by Shakespeare and the Bible.
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