David suchet murder on the orient express

A very different Poirot

I have only been an occasional follower of the TV movies with Suchet, but have seen enough to know that he delivers an excellent Poirot.

Nonetheless, this episode had to follow in the rather large footsteps of an all-star classic predecessor, and I was curious on how it would accomplish it.

The main twist here is that unlike most Poirot-themed works, this really isn't a whodunnit by any stretch of the imagination.

While the 1974 version keeps the viewer in the dark about at least Poirot's own reasoning until the big triumphant showdown, the 2010 adaptation gradually let's the viewer in on the solution, and really does not make much of a mystery about it.

Originally I thought it was a bit of a let-down, which it is if you expect the usual Orient Express arc of confusion about the various clues and statements and suspects followed by Poirot's Grand Revelation.

However, the point of this Orient Expre