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A somewhat nice Poirot movie but with at least 2 problems with the plot.
1) This can be debated over but to me it seems illogical to assume that A) the blackmailer (the Indian male character) didn't recognize the rich bankers face when he was impersonating the dentist, and B) banker taking a HUGE risk of getting recognized by the blackmailer.
2) This is a BIG problem. I haven't read the book, maybe the author got away with this detail in a non-visual story (book). The shooting of the dentist is ridiculous. A human is shot with a pistol close range. There seems to be only entry wound. No blood or other "material" splatter. The body is dragged to other room. Then the killer, the banker, "services" the Indian blackmailer and injects lethal dose of novocaine and adrenaline. The dentist patient leaves. Then killer drags the body of the dentist back from the other room. The end result however is that the body is found in a pool of blood, which couldn't come from anything other than the victims head bullet wound. Awfully nice of the dead corpse to start bleeding only after many minutes and being dragged around few times. This just doesn't happen in real life. Maybe the author wasn't very knowledgeable with what happens when you shoot someone.. I don't know, you would assume that she would had researched these things, though this wouldn't be the first HUGE error in authors Poirot stories, there's plenty of them, if you're sharp enough. ;)
The reason why the story is so convoluted and made hard to follow, is that the identity of the lady killer has to be kept somewhat secret.. I noticed it early though. :) In a novel there's no problem because we can't see the faces, so when Poirot meets a certain character, he doesn't know how that persons face should look like, but in a movie, we have already seen the character and notice the different face. That's why this movie is made hard to follow.
A somewhat nice Poirot movie but with at least 2 problems with the plot.
1) This can be debated over but to me it seems illogical to assume that A) the blackmailer (the Indian male character) didn't recognize the rich bankers face when he was impersonating the dentist, and B) banker taking a HUGE risk of getting recognized by the blackmailer.
2) This is a BIG problem. I haven't read the book, maybe the author got away with this detail in a non-visual story (book). The shooting of the dentist is ridiculous. A human is shot with a pistol close range. There seems to be only entry wound. No blood or other "material" splatter. The body is dragged to other room. Then the killer, the banker, "services" the Indian blackmailer and injects lethal dose of novocaine and adrenaline. The dentist patient leaves. Then killer drags the body of the dentist back from the other room. The end result however is that the body is found in a pool of blood, which couldn't come from anything other than the victims head bullet wound. Awfully nice of the dead corpse to start bleeding only after many minutes and being dragged around few times. This just doesn't happen in real life. Maybe the author wasn't very knowledgeable with what happens when you shoot someone.. I don't know, you would assume that she would had researched these things, though this wouldn't be the first HUGE error in authors Poirot stories, there's plenty of them, if you're sharp enough. ;)
The reason why the story is so convoluted and made hard to follow, is that the identity of the lady killer has to be kept somewhat secret.. I noticed it early though. :) In a novel there's no problem because we can't see the faces, so when Poirot meets a certain character, he doesn't know how that persons face should look like, but in a movie, we have already seen the character and notice the different face. That's why this movie is made hard to follow.