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Reviews
Poirot: The Clocks (2009)
I thought it was really good!
I really liked "The Clocks", I think it's because I got all emotional over that love story! I really felt sympathetic for Rosemary Sheila Webb, and that is a sign of good acting, right? (Also, I noticed to my amusement that Tom Burke looks a tiny bit like a less-girly, more-handsome Edward Cullen.) The music also created an atmosphere that was more dark and emotional than usual. Without Hastings, Japp, or Lemon, this movie is more "let's save this young girl from being wrongly convicted" than "let's make jokes and watch Poirot be whimsical", if that makes sense. Not only is this movie more serious than most in the series, but it is also more focused on the characters Colin and Sheila and less on Poirot himself.
I agree with other reviewers that it was strange how the spy plot and the murder plot actually turn out to be completely separate. I also thought the murderer became obvious pretty early on. Still, the full details of the resolution did surprise me in the end and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie despite, as some have pointed out, the extraordinary coincidences it would have taken to make it all possible.
Poirot: Double Sin (1990)
Don't know if I'm the only one confused by this episode
I recently discovered Poirot and have been watching the entire series one episode after another, and I love it! But this particular one just doesn't make sense to me. I don't know if I'm missing something. I even tried to watch it a second time but something still seems backwards.
SPOILERS INCLUDED
To start with, at the very beginning Poirot is feeling negative and says he wants to retire, while Hastings in vain tries to cheer him up. In the very next scene, Poirot is saying that Hastings needs a holiday to get fresh air and feel better, etc. Shouldn't it be Hastings urging Poirot to take a holiday? Sure, later we are told it was Poirot's idea to go because he secretly wanted to hear Japp's speech and to see whether Japp will give him due credit. But then why does he have to be so depressed in the beginning? Is it because he suspects that Japp will take credit for all his successes?.. if so, it is not made clear..
But these are just interpersonal details. The behavior of the criminals is strange, too. At the end we find out that the young girl knows all about her aunt's scheme and had been merely acting the whole time. If so, then I would assume she also knows that her supposedly wheelchair-bound aunt can actually walk just fine. Why, then, in the beginning scenes does she wheel her aunt around in the wheelchair and they speak of how the aunt needs to take care of her frail health, etc, when they are alone together? Who are they putting on the act for? Merely for the film's audience, I suppose, but realistically I don't see why they would be having that conversation if they are both plotting to fake a theft.
The third thing that I thought wasn't well-explained was the whole deal with the suspicious couple, the man with the bit of a moustache and his lady friend. The man's nervousness, his phone calls, their conversation about a suitcase - everything was so extremely suspicious, as if they really had done something serious like committed a murder or something. Hastings chases them down in an exciting car chase only for them to be recognized as some famous lady and her lover and immediately released, never to be seen again. What was that all about? Unless I am missing some celebrity reference, it doesn't make much sense.. Okay, I assume they were being secretive because they were lovers planning to run away together.. But that was it? Then why the overly suspicious behavior?
I don't know, maybe the episode seems so clumsy because Poirot is reluctant to actually investigate this case, and it is Hastings who tries to do so and becomes misled. Anyway, I thought this one was a little bit oddly put together, but then again I have not read the original story.