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poirot taken at the flood
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agatha christie poirot taken at the flood reg 2 dvd david suchet
Dear oh Dear !
Review date: 2008-04-29 Rating: 4 out of 10
Talk about depressing ! Public hanging , terrorism , references to homosexuality and simulated sex being seen too along with abortion being part of the storyline make it far too strong . This was not one of Agatha Christies better novels & frankly much of the dialogue from that mediocre book could have been dispensed with . A truly smart screen writer would have given a few scenes with Hastings as he talks to Poirot about the case while instead of that boring Georges Miss Lemon could have been making the tisanes in a cameo . Japp as the investigating officer would have been a very smart move as he is a brilliant character. Evil Under The Sun was a far better novel than Taken At The Flood and yet Pauline Moran ( as Miss Lemon ) , Philip Jackson ( as Chief Inspector Japp ) and Hugh Fraser ( as Captain Hastings ) did a superb job in that fine TV movie . Evil Under The Sun was a great TV adaptation & the tradegy is that Taken At The Flood could have been superb . Instead it was gloomy & tedious to say the least . David Suchet tries his best as Poirot but as with Sad Cypress he is a lonely & marginalised figure . Since 2003 Poirot has missed Miss Lemon as she could have taken him down a peg or two and the inclusion of gay characters has been homphobic to say the least . There was nothing PC , modern or progressive about the wife asking her husband in Taken At The Flood about that kind of thing - it was just demeaning to use a section of the population for a cheap jibe that served no purpose at all . I would have prefered Hastings & Poirot to be talking things over . Philip Jackson has been excellent investigating officer in Poirot & Hugh Fraser has been great as Hastings . This dismal episode shows how much Poirot has declined as a series owing to dreary script writing with nasty topics and the absence of messars Moran , Jackson & Fraser.
Product Details/Specifications
EAN: 5037115281135
Binding: DVD
Region code: 2