Absolutely Fantastic

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The movie was so gory and had one use of the F word...we were looking for old fashioned scary mystery movie without gore. This one is definitely not for family watching. Horrible unexpected scenes of people's deaths. Much darker than typical Agatha Christie. I was hoping for more mystery feeling, scary, unexpected scenes, but most were filled with so much blood. Not for me.

I stumbled upon the book 'And Then There Were None' quite by accident, and having just finished reading 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas', I was interested in seeing how good Agatha Christie's 'masterpiece' was. The cover of the edition I bought advertised this TV series, and after I had finished what was truly a brilliant book, I was curious to see how well its visual counterpart held up.Having looked at the cast beforehand, I knew none of them except for Charles Dance, whom I knew to be a good actor and who seemed perfect in the role of the cunning Justice Wargrave. I wouldn't say I was worried about how well the other actors would hold up next to someone as good as him, but I did not think they would be as good as him. However, I am glad to say that I was wrong.Every single one of the cast delivered a stand-out performance. Although the final five survivors (Armstrong, Blore, Lombard, Claythorne and the judge himself) were definitely the best, the others were also really good and brought their respective characters to life extremely well. The setting is great, with an island quite akin to what I imagined when I was reading the book, and the cinematography is beautiful and sets the scene perfectly. The score, although a minuscule part of the whole, is also very good.Obviously when it comes to film or TV series versions of books, details are always changed or added for convenience, and I was a bit worried that the writers of the show might change details of plot devices and mess the whole thing up (as has already been the case with shows like Game of Thrones). But not only were the changes subtle and did nothing to negate the overall plot, I actually liked some of them(!). The idea to have the judge walk in on Vera at the last second and deliver a chilling monologue was surprisingly good, and I like it just as much as the book ending. Overall, this was a brilliant visual re-telling of what is surely one of the greatest mystery novels of all time. The cast are excellent, the cinematography and setting is perfect and the subtle plot changes do nothing but add to this masterpiece of film.10/10

After various disappointing adaptations of this Agatha Christie mystery, the Lifetime network finally delivered the goods and did justice to the source material. With a cast compromised of known actors like Sam Neill, Noah Taylor, Charles Dance and Miranda Richardson as well as lesser known actors like Maeve Dermody and Aidan Turner among others in one of the greatest mystery stories in literary history, tension is rife throughout with nail- biting chemistry between the actors.While every actor is terrific, the major standout is Maeve Dermody as Vera Claythorne, the most anxious member of the island-goers. Dermody does not go over the top like her predecessors instead the actress remains as subdued as possible only going into a scream queen moment once or twice. Her chemistry with Aidan Turner as Philip Lombard is more profound than the novel's allusions to their mutual attraction and also displays a firm chemistry with Miranda Richardson's Emily Brent.The script is straightforward as the miniseries follows Agatha Christie's novel nearly verbatim. Minor changes are scattered in the series like the death of Sam Neill's General MacArthur (so far this is only time the character's original name has been used in an adaptation) when he is killed by a crossbow and not bludgeoned to death like the novel, Emily Brent is actually killed with a knitting needle and not drugged like the novel (this method is more fitting considering the story's poem) and the end has a small alteration but ends the same way as the book did. If you want thrills and chills, give this miniseries a viewing and skip the previous movie incarnations.

Everything was marvelous - acting, casting (except for Blore; actor was magnificent, but Blore has to be somewhat more fat indeed), decoration, costumes...Except, some little, yet crucial details:1) Scotland Yard phase, together with a small footage of Judge killing all others without being detected, can be shown in the end, also without forgetting the letter-and-bottle scenery. Therefore, they could stick to the real ending. Also, for making it a little fancy, the maintenance boat (Narracott) could bring police force to the island after "X" days, as a pre-order by Owens in the beginning. Due to the fact that Narracott was ordered to stop delivering goods after a while will definitely make the police force to search the killer inside the house - as there won't be any U.N. Owen at all, despite the invitation letters. This was missing in the original books also.2) Judge's suicide is really messed up. He has to be found in the alleged/assumed death place of his, which was his bedroom, just like in the real book. Not only the aiming and the distance can be both figured out by policemen easily in this series' version, but also the wine setup was a poor one, considering that no one else had touched that glass other than Wargrave. However, instead, there was a hint given by Emily Brent - one of her knitting wool ball was missing, which could be used for the elastic mechanism for the final suicide of the Judge just like described in the original book edition.3) Addition of "cocaine mayhem", sexual intercourse of Vera and Lombard and enhancing Marston's role were really good additions. "Bear clock - bear attack" and U.N. Owen/A.N. O'Nyme alterations were both nicely done. But Judge was giving the hint in the second episode: He was supposed to be unable to walk or act in quick motion, but in order to preserve the pre-fixed death que, he ran to save Vera's life when she threw herself desperately to the sea in episode 2. He ran. And acted quicker than before for a certain amount of time after that. He couldn't really keep it in low profile perfectly. That put him into Blore's and Lombard's suspect list, actually to the head of that list. He was considered as being able to commit all those crimes, maybe due to such physical action of him in the second episode.4) Making Brent a potential lesbian and child abuser was well thought. However, her being a nurse was a factor that drove Armstrong more crazy as she could be the nurse in his failed famous surgery. Also, if she was in fact an abuser, she didn't confess her true guilt before dying. 5) Letters of each and every "Soldier" had to be shown to other Soldiers at some point in a crime scenery of this magnitude. That was clearly missing. Additionally, Blore has to possess a gun, just like in the original series, in order to make the potential "assumed alive Armstrong - Blore" confrontation more unbalanced in favor of Blore. 6) No diaries were kept by either of the Soldiers. Scotland Yard was supposed to determine the death row by those up to Wargrave's presumed death.7) Unlike the book edition, accordingly cyanide incidents from Marston and Mrs. Rogers were not revealed in the end by the Judge. None of the other murders were explained in an aspect, either. Other than these, everything was perfect. This series is still a masterpiece adaptation, even in spite of these facts. One of the best adaptations from Agatha Christie saga, and furthermore, one of the best of all time.Definitely worth to see..