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Murder On The Orient Express Essay

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If you were stuck on a train and a murder happened, what would you do? I know what I would do but lucky for us there is a movie that tells us a story about that exact scenario called “Murder on The Orient Express.” The movie was directed by Kenneth Branagh a critically acclaimed director who has worked on other major movies such as, “Dunkirk” and “Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.” Some of the key actors that brought “Murder on The Orient Express” to life were Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, and William Dafoe, all actors with tremendous acting backgrounds. These actors not only played their roles very well, but they brought them to life though their movements and costumes to their convincing accent’s through dialog. My favorite actor had to be Kenneth Branagh and his rendition of the world-famous detective Hercule Poirot. Throughout the film he made me feel like I was part of the movie and that he was sincerely confused about who caused the murder. He was also very convincing about how he inspected every person on the train about where they were and what they were doing. My favorite part about the role he played was how he tied everything together and he even managed to figure out everyone’s real reason they were on the train in …show more content…

On the other hand, there were some moments where I would say to myself time out, what’s going on. Don’t get me wrong it was a great movie that had many moments that I won’t forget it was just hard to follow what was going on at points in the movie. For example, when Detective Poirot was interviewing some of the passengers on the train it was hard to understand some of them because they were speaking very fast. There was just a lot of crucial information that I missed because I couldn’t keep up with the pace of the

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