![]() Not all the recent Marple adaptations are bad or disappointing, Pocket Full of Rye, The Blue Geranium and The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side(I'd go further to say this one especially was the best version of the book) were excellent and Murder is Announced and Moving Finger were surprisingly good too. I've watched it a few times, on occasion I quite like it, but in comparison to others in the series it is the ugly duckling. The ending verges on Melodrama, it's like something you'd expect an am dram group to put on, it just didn't work. Some of the dialogue is quite dull and uninteresting. For the first time in a Marple I actually find some of the acting a bit weak, I have always loved both Samantha Bond and Warren Clarke, but both are below par, Hannah Murray is either poor or dreadfully written, I can't distinguish, but Freddie Fox is abysmal, he looks like he's just going through the motions. It looks really nice, there is some gorgeous filming, the music also is brilliant, it's really melodic. Georgia Moffett and Sean Biggerstaff both give fairly good performances. There are some nice elements to this story, Julia McKenzie drives the story, she literally is too good for the material and script she's given. Apart from Miss Marple and Bobby Attfield most of the others are just a bit too much. I'm a really easy Agatha Christie fan to please, it doesn't take a huge deal to make me happy, this one fails pretty much, the characters are almost made into caricatures, they're all a little bit over the top and unbelievable. Bobby Attfield hears a dying mans last words while out walking, 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' With the help of friend Frankie Derwent and later Jane Marple's the lead takes them to the family home of the dysfunctional Savages, as they try to uncover the cryptic message and uncover dark secrets. I struggle a little with this one, as it's one of the novels I really like, it's a book that draws you in, builds the characters and has a really satisfying conclusion.
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