Crooked House (2017)

Twisted plot and nice acting! 10/10 for a mystery movie.

Fmovies: I love Agatha Christie's works, and I sometimes love the TV or movie adaptations, in this case, LOVED IT. It's so easy in a film to give away plot elements by focusing too much on certain characters but in this one (one of the few books I hadn't read) I was constantly kept guessing at who the murder was, which is essential in a Christie adaptation, the whole point is to be guessing until the last chapter, or in this case scene, which the film did beautifully. Every single character had a motive or motives to be the murderer and they portrayed that really well, in some films it's really obvious that they are only focusing on one or two people and then throw you a curve ball and present a character that has two minutes screen time and no real personality, and you leave feeling cheated because you never could have guessed or figured it out yourself. The best part in this film was that moment, when the murderer was revealed and I thought 'Of course, I should have seen that'.

Agatha Christie's this detective fiction first published in 1949 and this is its first film adaptation. Haven't read the original novel yet, so can't tell how well they have adapted it here but found it pretty entertaining with great production value and great cast including Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson (couldn't recognize her first!), Glenn Close, Terence Stamp and Julian Sands. May be because it wasn't one of her popular Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple stories, there wasn't much charms of solving the mystery with clue by clue. Still it was enjoyable as it also offered one of her signature & most engaging mystery format...a gorgeous mansion of a wealthy Britt family and the house full of suspicious characters who each may got his/her own motive for the murder(s) and of course, with a nice surprise at the final revelation; particularly this story came with a real shocker!

Crooked House fmovies. Great cast, excelllent plot, and an unexpected ending. Add in a very good script and perfect scenery. From my experience it's one of Agatha Christie's best. My only two concerns were that the volume of the sound rose to ear piercing levels when any music came on, and there were so many characters that I sometimes got confused as to who was married to who and the relationships between them.

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.

What I love about Agatha Christie novels is that under the elegance is always a dark secret. I read Crooked House many years ago, and I loved this adaptation. The scenes are beautifully set in the family's manor house and 50's London. The cast, from Glenn Close as the family matriarch to Max Irons, who does a great job as the young detective with an old soul, is excellent. They manage to make each character its own mystery, which contributes to the suspense as you try to figure out who the murderer is. The style makes it both typical of Christie and reminiscent of film noir, with a touch of Downton Abbey.