Crooked House (2017)

Sadly Over-hyped

Really Surprised!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Me refiero a que, una película de intriga, tiene que tener intriga, suspense, emoción, aventuras, esta película no tiene nada de eso. El detective, es el detective menos inteligente del mundo. No tiene ni una frase que te diga que está avanzando. De hecho yo pensaba que le habían puesto a él porque no parece muy listo, como dice la nieta en un momento en la película. Es el primer detective de la historia que no tiene que correr aventuras en ningún momento de la película. Esos momentos en los que investiga y casi le ven.Los actores están bien, salvo el detective. No me gusta ese detective, no es un detective. La iluminación esta estupenda. Si es una película de gran presupuesto y eso se nota. Ayuda contar la película, a meterte, pero hay otras cosas que te sacan.El director, no me gusta, no ha sabido hacer una película policiaca. No ha sabido usar la cámara. No sabe contar con la cámara. Los planos son básicos o incluso feos. La película no aburre, pero no dice nada.Es como ver una película que cuando termina no sabes que te está contando, porque no te ha llegado. I mean, a movie of intrigue, it has to have intrigue, suspense, excitement, adventures, this movie does not have any of that. The detective is the least intelligent detective in the world. It does not have a phrase that tells you it is moving forward. In fact, I thought that they had put him because he does not seem very smart, as the granddaughter says at one point in the movie. He is the first detective in history who does not have to run adventures at any time in the movie. Those moments in which he investigates and almost see him.The actors are fine, except for the detective. I do not like that detective, he's not a detective. The lighting is great. If it's a big budget movie and that shows. It helps to tell the movie, to get involved, but there are other things that take you out.The director, I do not like it, he has not known how to make a police movie. He has not known how to use the camera. He does not know how to count on the camera. The plans are basic or even ugly. The movie does not bore, but it does not say anything.It's like watching a movie that when it ends you do not know what is telling you, because it has not arrived

I'm surprised that Julian Fellows has a credit for this screenplay as the script was littered with language that did not come into use in the UK until decades later. It's bad enough that our language is being eradicated by Americanisms in the present day but this revisionistic assault is adding insult to injury.

Overwrought production drowning in bad acting, bad casting and accents, wigs and make-up in an absurdly dark set. Can't imagine Agatha Christie writing such drivel and that Julian Fellowes dressed it up. Lipstick on a pig. Even worse, I can't believe I sat through the whole thing. Horrid waste of time and money.

One of the most faithful adaptations of a Christie novel I've ever seen. It was well cast, the production was beautiful, and I got the sense that it tried to stay true to the point of the book. It really drove home the way different types of ruthlessness and selfishness express themselves, and how that formed the killer. Who, of course, is not someone you'd suspect.