"DEATH ON THE NILE" (2004) Review This 2004 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel, "Death on the Nile" , was the second to be adapted for the screen. In the case of this movie, it aired as a 90-minute presentation on the long-running television series, "Agatha Christie’s POIROT" . Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Death on the Nile docks on the wrong side of every nautical quip in the metaphoric movie review harbor. There's no wind in this story's sails. Its Like Batman Begins, Murder on the Orient Express ended with a sequel tease, in this case promising “a murder on the bloody nile,” signaling that Branagh would adapt Christie’s Death on the Death on the Nile is the direct sequel to Murder on the Orient Express released in 2017, a film that proved to be a modest success at the time but enough to be considered the first step in the exploration of Agatha Christie’s cinematic universe. Below is my spoiler-free review of Death on The Nile directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh as 4/5: Classic! I don't remember reading this before, but it wasn't much of a surprise, as I had recently watched all three film versions (David Suchet, Peter Ustinov, Kenneth Branagh) as I was doing the Nile cruise almost as described in the book. (As an aside, David Suchet's version was the closest to the book, but had the smallest amount of Ancient Egyptian monuments). The book is actually Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie adaptation “Death on the Nile” begins with a flashback to the trenches of World War I before shifting to 1930s London two decades later, but that’s nothing compared to the time that's passed since Branagh's preceding 2017 whodunit “Murder on the Orient Express.” It was an unexpected box-office hit, and a sequel, with Branagh again directing and .

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