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Crooked House (2017)

December. 22,2017
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6.3
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PG-13
| Thriller Crime Mystery
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A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

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Karry
2017/12/22

Best movie of this year hands down!

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UnowPriceless
2017/12/23

hyped garbage

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Dotbankey
2017/12/24

A lot of fun.

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Curt
2017/12/25

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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Larry Butchins
2017/12/26

Despite the lavish settings, some handy acting and dark theme portending something menacing (as all Agatha Christie stories should...) the movie falls short on so many levels. I said "handy" acting - not great, just acceptable. Glenn Close was not as good as I would have expected. In fact she seemed quite uncomfortable in her role and seemed to be working incredibly hard at her English accent. Max Irons was OK, but actually not very convincing as a "private eye" and the way the screenplay was built was somewhat confusing: who belonged to whom? Gillian Anderson was suitably OTT, but I felt that many of the actors were trying too hard. All in all, it lacked pace, it dragged and apart from the house, the direction was somewhat crooked.

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vitachiel
2017/12/27

Too many potential murderers, too little time to put them in the spotlight. You just can't justifiably make a feature film based on an intricate detective story like this. The audience doesn't get any chance to fathom all the motives and clues and is left with a bunch of freak characters who all have their reasons, but are each allowed so little screentime that the viewer wouldn't care less who has done it. Maybe it would have been better to just skip a few of the characters in order to develop the subplots with more breathing time. Or just make a mini series out of it.

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annajanew
2017/12/28

One of the most faithful adaptations of a Christie novel I've ever seen. It was well cast, the production was beautiful, and I got the sense that it tried to stay true to the point of the book. It really drove home the way different types of ruthlessness and selfishness express themselves, and how that formed the killer. Who, of course, is not someone you'd suspect.

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The Couchpotatoes
2017/12/29

They say no movie beats reading the original book and in this case it's again a valid point. With a book well written you can use your imagination completely, on how the characters look and what their part is in the mystery. In the movie though you don't get that same sensation. I thought Crooked House was very slow and a bit boring if I have to be honest. I would rather play a game of Cluedo than watching this movie again. It's just more entertaining. The cast wasn't bad though, but the story being so slow they couldn't make this movie better. I do like Agatha Christie's books but her movie adaptions seems not as good to me. And by the way I saw the end coming from far. I'm not sure that would have been the case with the book.

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