‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is a reminder of the virtues of pretty good movies – The Washington Post
Prominent among those is Branagh’s turn as Poirot, which anchors the movie’s fundamental sense of decency. Branagh has fun with Poirot’s fussier mannerisms, from his obsession with the size of his morning eggs to the magnificently ridiculous contraption he uses to preserve his mustache while he sleeps. But he also does a delicate job of portraying Poirot as torn between a sense of profound duty born out of his talent and his eccentricities, and the rest he desperately needs.
“I can only see the world as it should be,” Poirot explains early in the movie. “When it is not, the imperfection stands out.” As a director, Branagh wisely resists the urge to retroactively diagnose Poirot with some sort of autism spectrum disorder, though “Murder on the Orient Express” could have made that leap. Instead, the movie depicts Poirot as someone who finds crime and injustice almost physically intolerable. The film’s most important insight is that the most interesting thing to do with that concept is not to make Poirot merely a genius of detection, but to force him to employ his skills in a situation where justice is not neatly achievable in a fashion that both Poirot and the audience would find most comforting. At the end of “Murder on the Orient Express,” the murder is solved in the sense that we know whodunit, but the larger moral dilemmas are resolved in only the most unsettling fashion.
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Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie’s fictional detective) – Often seems insensitive, big ego, eye for detail, obsession with symmetry, strong likes and dislikes, odd (old-fashion) dress-sense.
Rhetoric of Detective 