Apologies in advance to anyone who has a different take on this subject:
I watched Kenneth Branagh's "Death on the Nile" this afternoon on Hulu.
I am a big Agatha Christie fan, and I love the movie version of the book that boasted an all-star cast including Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis and Maggie Smith.
I reiterate that I saw Branagh's "Death on the Nile", because it sure wasn't Christie's. He has so altered characters and events that saying it's "based on" the Christie novel is just to cover the use of the title and locale.
Worst of all, IMO, is the ludicrous changing of the race/occupation of one of the main characters. The white romance novelist, Ms. Audobon, is now a black jazz singer, and she has several very loud complete renditions of jazz songs that the movie seems to have been cut to...like a music video. The characters Davis and Smith played in the original film are now played by Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French, and they are revealed to be lovers. Annette Bening plays a character with a son, both of whom seem to be Branagh inventions, although I think they substitue for unrelated characters in the actual nove.
To be fair, they did keep the primary killers and their motives, but the rest is virtually unrecognizable as Christie material.
Not MY cup of tea at all.