WasAnnon
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
SnoReptilePlenty
Memorable, crazy movie
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
stevesmith-80860
This show was very well done and very interesting. The acting and writing were great. The premise of the story was not the most original or most intresting but, the writing and acting were both superb and really carried this show.
8/10
clevers-06638
One of the best and real TV version of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Niggers" novel. There is no stupid happy end like in previous ones (except Russian TV-movie 1989.
Alyssa Black (Aly200)
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.
drc-6
The previous reviewer made some very fair points - essentially commenting on the fact that all the best Marple/Poirot books have been filmed ad infinitum. 'Death Comes as the End' ought to be filmed, because it is as tricky a Christie as ever she wrote. It supplies everything the previous reviewer wanted - No Miss Marple; no Hercule Poirot and it is a classic Agatha Christie whodunit - set in ancient Egypt. This, I believe was the only time Christie set any of her novels outside the 20th century. I believe her second husband Sir Max Mallowan (a well respected British archaeologist) used to take Christie on his Egyptian digs and (that) this ended up being the theme of the book. As I said at the outset, no Poirot/no Marple, but it as good a Christie novel as you are ever going to get.
