They seemingly are quite happy, save for the fact that Jacqueline keeps showing up wherever they are to stare daggers at them. Turns out, Simon is in the exotic locale honeymooning with his new wife, Linnet (gasp!). They make eyes at each other, and Poirot watches with his. Is Poirot there to take in the performance of guitar-playing American blues singer Salome Otterbourne (Sophie Okonedo, “Ratched”) or, more likely, to observe folks such as the charming-but-unemployed Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer, “Call Me by Your Name”), his fiancee, Jacqueline de Bellefort (Emma Mackey, “Sex Education”) and her wealthy friend, Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot, “Wonder Woman”)?Īfter the attractive couple engages in a very sexy dance, Jacqueline encourages Simon to dance with the likewise beautiful Linnet. However, before taking us there, Branagh - again directing, as well as leading an ensemble full of talented actors in this highly entertaining follow-up to his excellent 2017 hit “Murder on the Orient Express” - catches us up with Poirot at a dark-and-steamy music club. Many years later, how love works - or, more specifically, what men and women will do in the name of love - is very much on the mind of the renowned, knife-sharp Belgian detective as he vacations in Egypt.
“Do you have any idea how love works?” she asks.
Susannah Fielding’s Katherine is taken aback by his suggestion she move on from him. Early on in the long-delayed, finally landing-in-theaters adaptation of mystery writer Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel, “Death on the Nile,” a young Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) expresses doubt to his significant other that she will still love him.Īfter a clever bit of heroism while serving in Belgium during the early days of World War I, the future super sleuth has been left somewhat disfigured from a nearby explosion.
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