Absolutely Fantastic

A Masterpiece!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I struggle a little with this one, as it's one of the novels I really like, it's a book that draws you in, builds the characters and has a really satisfying conclusion.Bobby Attfield hears a dying mans last words while out walking, 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' With the help of friend Frankie Derwent and later Jane Marple's the lead takes them to the family home of the dysfunctional Savages, as they try to uncover the cryptic message and uncover dark secrets.I'm a really easy Agatha Christie fan to please, it doesn't take a huge deal to make me happy, this one fails pretty much, the characters are almost made into caricatures, they're all a little bit over the top and unbelievable. Apart from Miss Marple and Bobby Attfield most of the others are just a bit too much.There are some nice elements to this story, Julia McKenzie drives the story, she literally is too good for the material and script she's given. Georgia Moffett and Sean Biggerstaff both give fairly good performances. It looks really nice, there is some gorgeous filming, the music also is brilliant, it's really melodic.For the first time in a Marple I actually find some of the acting a bit weak, I have always loved both Samantha Bond and Warren Clarke, but both are below par, Hannah Murray is either poor or dreadfully written, I can't distinguish, but Freddie Fox is abysmal, he looks like he's just going through the motions. Some of the dialogue is quite dull and uninteresting.The ending verges on Melodrama, it's like something you'd expect an am dram group to put on, it just didn't work.I've watched it a few times, on occasion I quite like it, but in comparison to others in the series it is the ugly duckling. 5/10

A dreadful mess of a script meanders slowly through an unrecognisable plot awash with poorly acted characters who have clearly been misunderstood in the writing process.WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? The original title and the character of Evans is really the only thing left from the story. Which plods... interminably. Is nothing like the book. And... by rights... should have Agatha Christie fans almost incoherent with rage.Into this disaster they have grafted Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie). The kindest thing I can say about this is that the graft simply hasn't taken. It is not the fault of Ms McKenzie who seems to have a very good handle on Miss Marple, despite the fact that she has been dropped into a story with very little to do except pop up from time to time and has been given dialogue so thin it is practically transparent.Bobby and Frankie seem incredibly immature, and Frankie's unsubtle questioning grates on the nerves.Why didn't they ask Evans? is not my favourite Christie book, but scarcely deserves the appalling treatment it has received here.

This novel of Christie's is one of my favorites for its charm, it's wonderful characters of Frankie and Bobby and it's immensely witty plot. It was wonderfully adapted already into a magnificently faithful version which had superb costumes, but the way. This mishmosh bore no resemblance to the novel and was poorly acted as well. Why would any writer think they could take an Agatha Christie title and then just change it around into something better? When Perfection has been reached, there is no where else to go. If the writer is such a great writer, let him write his own mystery story.Please, please stop making these awful, embarrassing adaptations and leave Agatha intact before someone who doesn't read her books tunes in and thinks this is really her work. They will wonder why her reputation has lasted nearly 100 years.

Indescribably preposterous! Slightly better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick...SLIGHTLY! Absolute rubbish!!Nothing more need be said about this grotesquely mutilated (Miss Marple does not appear in Dame Agatha's original, sniff, sniff.) perversion of Agatha Christie's moderately readable, but by no means vintage, whodunit. It has been "revised" beyond recognition by the screen writer (whose name I do not know, nor do I wish to know it) and were it not for the fact that this website requires that the utterly dismissible (In the instant case, the subject ghastly flop) be discussed at length (ten line minimum comment...can you imagine? What can these people be thinking of?) I should not have wasted any more of the readers time than it would have taken to read the opening volley! My apologies but, it seems the entertainment industry's appetite for discourse upon itself has no limits. Alas!