Just perfect...

I wanted to but couldn't!

A Masterpiece!

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Just. It's hard to agree with everyone calling it a "masterpiece", even rating it 9 or 10 stars. I rate this movie based on only the movie. Not having read the book, nor watched many of the other movies inspired by Agatha Christies books.So. Short review: Jackie is crazy (and has no eyebrows). Her guy is a douche. The victim is boring. Poirot is kinda sassy and gives no f#!ks. Snake guy professionally disposes of the snake (no doubt). I wouldn't really want to watch the whole thing again. The first... Hour? Is incredibly boring and honestly, focusing so much time on these characters made it painfully obvious who was going to die and pretty much gave away the killers. The welcome and "fun" surprises were the additional murders, and getting to know the (all of them) very weird and eccentric characters. Basically, the movie was fun after they finally get on the boat.Still, a mystery movie that is not really a mystery. Everyone testifying "He couldn't have done it! Neither could she!" doesn't make it true. It just makes these people stupid. Still, 6/10 for crazy people, snake-throwing and lots of sudden deaths.

. . . by bands of indigenous Egyptian terrorists wielding AR15s, it seems very quaint to Harken back to the Innocent Days of the 1900s, when foreign sight-seers in that country nosing around the Great Pyramids only need to worry about their derringer-toting fellow travelers bumping them off. Now that every major American City features multiple No-Go Zones in which slain outsiders are blamed for their own demise if they foolishly perish by stumbling into one, it's hard to imagine a Yesteryear in which Mainstream Western People expected to traipse around safe and secure in Nice, London, Brussels, or Cairo--let alone Charleston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington, DC. But in 1978 DEATH ON THE NILE was as much of a Non Sequitar as a movie titled PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST would be Today. It was almost unprecedented to see someone like the crone from MURDER SHE WROTE suddenly having her brains blown out in 1978, but now this happens almost daily in Real Life to grannies, toddlers, and babies alike in Chicago and many other American Urban Areas. When Jimmy Carter was president, movie goers could hit the theaters counting on more people getting killed ON the screen than OFF-. Who among us would be so complacent Today?

John Guillermin's "Death on the Nile" is the best adaptation that I've seen from Agatha Christie's work since watching Billy Wilder's "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) almost 5 years ago, but the only difference between the two movies is that this one is adapted from one of her books. This movie is also the best whodunit I've seen since I don't know when. Peter Ustinov stars as a French detective named Hercule Poirot who goes on a cruise-boat for a relaxing vacation along the Nile River with an interesting group of people most of whom he hardly even knows, except for one person. The only person that Poirot knows is Col. Race (David Niven) and after a murder happens on the boat the two men would be asked to investigate this case along with two more murders. After the first murder every single passenger except two people, then after the next two murders the list of suspects gets two additions and two subtractions, then both Poirot and Case arrive at their conclusion. I was literally on the edge of my seat while watching this movie so much that I felt like I was watching people playing the board game "Clue" and I do mean that as a compliment to this movie. Anthony Shaffer's screenplay is expertly written, and John Guillermin's direction makes the movie hold the suspense all the way to the end of the movie. Jack Cardiff's cinematography is also excellent and that along with Nino Rota's score also heightens the suspense of the movie. The performances are also excellent and along with Ustinov the movie also features an excellent supporting cast including several Oscar winners along with Niven also include Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, and George Kennedy of which all of them give standout performances, as well as Oscar nominees Angela Lansbury and Jack Warden. This is one of the ten best movies of 1978, and is a riveting watch from start to finish which is why I highly recommend this movie for anyone who hasn't seen it, as well as for people who like murder mystery films.

Not taking into account the TV series of BBC and ITV I would class this as the best of the movies with Christie's name on.A beautiful lavish film, which boasts sublime direction, a wonderful cast, a gorgeous accompanying score, and the perfect mix of story and drama. The scenery is fabulous, the whole movie is a true feast for the eyes, the Pyramids, the Nile, even the costumes. It comes as no surprise the movie won an Oscar for costume design, they were spot on.The casting is impeccable, it is a flawless mix of people, Lois Chiles is incredibly beautiful, so believable. My favourite role of Mia Farrow's, I believe her all the way through. Simon MacCorkindale was perfect casting too, a great piece of casting with an enviable jawline. Too many wonderful performances to comment on them all, but Maggie Smith and Bette Davis win it for me, they made a sensational double act.I loved Ustinov's characterisation of Poirot, for me he beats Finney, whom I did admire but found a little on the theatrical side, there was something more natural about Ustinov, albeit he's not exactly how I visualise the famous Belgian sleuth. I mentioned in my review of Murder on the Orient Express that I felt Finney suited the flavour of that movie, and I'll say the same for Ustinov here, somehow it fits him perfectly.Often when I'm asked what my favourite movie of all time is I answer 'Death on the Nile,' it has so many incredibly good elements. It is a magnificent film, the story itself is one of my favourites. 10/10