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I love this movie so much

Wonderful Movie

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is certainly the best 'film of the book' there has ever been - so far. The title sequence alone deserves an Oscar, with those beautiful jade figurines disintegrating and morphing into a model of the island where it all happens.The house, the cast, the pathetically fallacious cloud formations, sunsets and dramatic weather, the costumes, hair and makeup taking each character from groomed control to dishevelled à la Marat/Sade - everything contributes to this brilliant psychological drama of Agatha Christie at her finest.The only thing missing was Agatha Christie's brilliance.There is a lack of understanding in this film of the original plot, which is not only fatal to the interpretation but is actually quite horrible. It is, in the final analysis, typical BBC. Every time the BBC dramatises a classic (Austen, Dickens, Conan Doyle...) it should have, just under the title, the words 'Loosely based on an idea by' - as a kind of caveat.Agatha Christie's book (originally titled, in the UK, as 'Ten Little Niggers', in accordance with the terminology of the time - this was after all 1939...) has a completeness and subtlety of plot which the BBC can for some reason never achieve. Every tiny detail, as in a fine tapestry, fits in with and contributes to the whole. Everything is in its place - and the reader overlooks it at their peril.So why did the BBC (in the persons of the screenwriter, director, et al.) omit things like the red oilskin curtain, the hiding of the grey skein of wool (inexpertly wound into an unusable ball by Miranda Richardson), the pooling and securing of possible murder implements, the bee, the seaweed, and so on? Why were the original murders made physical to an obviously culpable extent when the whole point of the plot is that they were not so, because they were too 'hands off'? It is, after all, in this last respect why every reader kicks themself as they turn the last page of Agatha Christie's most perfect work - because she provided not only all the clues but actually also the only possible solution, elegantly displayed along the way, for the Hastings-blind reader who missed it all. And then there's the larding of the BBC's currently in-favour - but inappropriate to the time and to Agatha Christie's oeuvre and taste - swear words. Plus the physical manifestation of the particularly favoured word between Vera Claythorne and Philip Lombard. What the fuck is all that about?. (See - doesn't add anything, does it ?) Have the BBC never heard of dramatic tension (oh, wait...)? If they'd kept faithful to the original in every respect, they wouldn't have needed to add anything as silly as a one-night stand and a few tacky close-ups of thighs, stocking tops, torsos, and cleavage. Good, verging on excellent - but in the event not good enough. Worth a watch, but not a buy.We'll just have to wait another twenty-nine or forty-one years for the next one to come along...

This show was very well done and very interesting. The acting and writing were great. The premise of the story was not the most original or most intresting but, the writing and acting were both superb and really carried this show. 8/10

I really liked this rendition of the book. It has already been filmed before, but that one is completely redone from the book (it became a new story altogether) and I did not like that at all. This one, on the other hand, is true to the book. It is also so fast paced it never got boring This in particular I'm really happy about, because this isn't a story that would handle that well. The story itself is probably one of my favorites (thanks Agatha Christie!) and I've wanted a decently filmed version like this one since I first read the book several years ago. I am so so happy with this mini-series and I definitely recommend it to anyone with this kind of taste in stories!

Quite simply this is the best adaptation of a work by Agatha Christie that I have ever seen. Even with knowing the story, the mood, creeping dread and top notch cast make this a perfect production. Part Gothic horror, part mystery and brain teaser, it will serve as a model for cinema adaptations of future work. Well done! From the opening credits to the brilliance of the flashbacks, this is a work that achieves what the author set out to do initially in the novel and then some. In some ways, the Flashbacks, far from answering questions, force us to constantly ask ourselves what exactly we are seeing. All is made clear in the final hour and it is quite startling. In some ways, it is an example of film technique improving upon the written word.