And Then There Were None (1)
Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts – the improbably named Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen – the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilisation. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die – one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’ - a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: "…and then there were none."
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Too much of everything
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
So good and genius, also the acting is good too and the cinematography also is pretty nice
The movie was so gory and had one use of the F word...we were looking for old fashioned scary mystery movie without gore. This one is definitely not for family watching. Horrible unexpected scenes of people's deaths. Much darker than typical Agatha Christie. I was hoping for more mystery feeling, scary, unexpected scenes, but most were filled with so much blood. Not for me.
It is never easy to transform Agatha's work to a film or video. "And then there were none" is the best among all of them, at least in my opinion. It is also the top 3 best crime novel of all time. Hence it makes even harder to put it on screen. It is coincident that I am re-reading the book while I walked into this series. So I would be able to make a parallel comparison. Fair enough to say that this series retain all the main stories of characters. In details there are some modification. For a reader of the book, it is a little bit strange while watching something that are not what it supposed to be exactly. As always, the pace of the development is quite slow in general. Maybe the director wants to create an atmosphere, but doesn't work for me. If they make it into 2 episodes, maybe it would be better.
*SOME SPOILERS, none of the biggest stuff* A large part of the intrigue in Agatha Christie's original novel is that the crimes committed by the ten victims are not direct murders, untouchable by the law. MacArthur sends the underling sleeping with his wife on a mission sure to kill him; Blore sends an innocent man to prison, where he dies; the Rogers couple withholds a drug which would have saved their former employer. In this film/miniseries, MacArthur shoots the underling in the back, Blore stomps the innocent man's head to pulp, and Mr. Rogers suffocates his elderly employer while his wife watches. This is sort of fine, taking the movie on its own terms, and ignoring the changes from the novel. The same goes for Emily Brent's repressed lesbian tendencies, Rogers being physically abusive of his wife, Vera and Lombard having sex, and the significant number of delusions/visions/hallucinations that aren't present in the book.But I will NOT accept some of the utterly ridiculous things that happen in the latter portion of the story. The revolver is hidden in more or less plain sight in the mouth of a bearskin rug? The same bearskin rug appears to roar and attack one of the victims during one of the final murders? The last four victims have a cocaine and alcohol party binge? In what universe does that last make ANY sense when you'd want your wits about you? Stupid. Needless. Laughable. Literally unbelievable.The Soviet film adaptation (Desyat negrityat, 1987) remains the only one worth watching for the Christie novel enthusiast, IMO. I'd call this effort on par with the one from the 40's: sort of cute on its own terms, but a pale regurgitation of the original work. Some bonus points for keeping the novel's ending and for the somewhat interesting (non-canonical) discussion between murderer and final victim.