The British actor and filmmaker Sir Kenneth Branagh has been a Hollywood basic food for years between his adaptations by Shakespeare games such as “A lot of Ado about nothing” from 1993 and “Hamlet” and blockbuster projects such as “Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets” as well as the first “Thorbuster film” in 2021. He also won his first Oscar in 2021 Thanks to the autobiographical film “Belfast”, which is based on his own childhood in the Northern Irish city during the problems. Branagh is clearly a strange and ambitious filmmaker and performer who is always looking for a new challenge that could explain why he began to adapt Agatha Christie Poirot stories for the big screen in 2017.
Branagh started this new project with “Murder on the Orient Express” this year and followed it with two other Poirot stories, “Death am Nil” and “A Haunting in Venice”, which came out in 2022 and 2023. So what is the right order order for Branagh’s Poirot films? Well, that may seem obvious, but I am here to confirm a simple fact: The best way to see Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films is only after your release date. So start with the earliest.
Murder on the Orient Express
If you all Hercule Poirot films by Kenneth Branagh Bingen, start with the film “Murder on the Orient Express” 2017. This is probably one of the most famous Agatha Christie who works with the famous fictional detective in the center. Therefore, it makes sense for Branagh to have this adaptation. Based on the book by the legendary mystery author of 1934, the film with Branaghs Poirot opens in the Church of the Holy Grab in Jerusalem. After solving a mystery there, he rises the Orient Express on his Simplon route, which should bring him back to London. On the train, Poirot meets a businessman named Edward Ratchett (Johnny Depp), who claims that he had experienced threats to his life. Poirot rejects the matter to examine the matter, but then Ratchett appears dead.
After Poirot acts a certain amount of rattechett and realizes that he used and is an alias Strictly speaking John Cassetti, a man who previously kidnapped and murdered a little girl named Daisy Armstrong. Cassetti was also indirectly responsible for the death of Daisy’s father John and Susanne, Nanny of the family, both of whom died through suicide. Some suspects begin to present themselves, including the other nurses of the family, pilar Estravados (Penélope Cruz), Susanne’s former lover, Cyrus Bethman Hardman (Willem Dafoe), Daisys Patin, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff (Dame Judi Dench) and a handful of others. I will not spoil the end of “Murder on the Orient Express” here if you have not yet read or saw this famous story, but Branagh does an excellent job, and the film became a commercial success – which Branagh gave the green light to continue to make Poirot films.
Death on the Nile
At the end of “Murder on the Orient Express”, Kenneth Branagh is continuing when Hercule Poirot leaves the train. After his journey ends, he meets a British messenger of the army that gives him a note in which it is said that it was given … A death on the Nile. After a brief review that Poirot’s service tells in the First World War – in which Poirot lovers Katherine (Susannah Fielding) can also be seen, who died in the war – we enter Poirot in 1937 in London, where “death am Nile” begins properly. While he is in the British capital, Poirot visits a performance by the Jazz singer Salome Otterbourne (Sophie Ocony). While he’s there, he sees the socialite Jacqueline de Bellefort (Emma Mackey) with her fiance Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer) and her long -time girlfriend Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot).
Strangely enough, Poirot travels in Egypt six weeks later when he meets Jacqueline, Simon and Linnet again, except that something is completely different: Linnet and Simon are now engaged to be married. (Jacqueline understandably follows them.) According to Simon, Linnet, Poirot and their wedding guests, the SS Karnak rise to celebrate the wedding, and after getting up briefly to see some ruins, Jacqueline gets in. When Linnet appears dead, Jacqueline probably seems to be the obvious guilty, but nothing seems so easy in Poirot stories. “Death on the Nile” was not quite as financially successful as its predecessor, but it still competed at the box office and paved the way for a third sequel.
A haunted in Venice
A year after “Death on the Nile”, Branagh published a third Hercule Poirot film, adapted from Agatha Christie’s novel “Hallowe’en Party” from 1969 and with the title “A Haunting in Venice”. After the events of the previous rate, Poirot is now trying to retire peacefully in Venice after we have lost confidence in a higher power over the years. In the meantime, he is accompanied by his bodyguard, the former Italian police officer Vital Portfoglio (Riccardo Scamarcio).
One evening, Poirot’s friend and popular crime novel Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey) convinces the detective to accompany you to a sease in a Venetian Palazzo by Rowena Drake (“Yellowstone” Star Keilly Reilly), carried out by well -known medium Joyce Reynolds (Michelle Yeoh), especially because Ariadne wants to prove once and for all, because everything Joyce is fraudulent. (In addition, the Palazzo is a former orphanage and is supposed to be extremely Haunted, so it is a particularly appropriate Halloween goal.) When Joyce seems to summon the spirit of Rowena’s deceased daughter Alicia and claims that the girl was murdered, Poirot is in that case.
A few more bodies fall before “a haunted in Venice”, and the secret comes to a satisfactory conclusion … And when you consider that it returns better at the box office than “death of the Nile”, a fourth Poirot film will probably arrive at some point. At the moment all three Hercule Poirot films from Branagh stream on Amazon Prime Video.
