...was so much cooler than this wannabe Poirot. Nothing added to the story. As unnecessary as the MotOE remake.
shareAlbert Finney's Poirot was also much better.
shareI was first introduced to Poirot through the 1974 rendition of Murder on the Orient Express. I loved the movie and, at the time, I liked Finney's portrayal.
However, having now read several of the books, and watched David Suchet in the Poirot series, I find that Finney just doesn't stack up.
The most epic and faithful of all Poirots will forever be David Suchet. No one will ever top what he's done with, and for, the character and Agatha's stories.
Ustinov does not at all strike me as the Poirot that we read about on the page, but he was okay as a kind of alternative vision for Poirot, which is about how I feel about Branagh and his take on the character.
Ustinov is the best movie Poirot, but no one beats Suchet. It's kind of a shame his adaptations of MotOE and DotN sucked.
shareFUCK OFF, David Suchet is the ULTIMATE Hercule Poirot, no-one else. EVER.