Entertainment at best

Not Poirot Not at all. This pathetic imitation is to be avoided at all costs. It's not Poirot in story or character.

As atuações são ótimas, dirigidas na medida. A fotografia é belíssima. O roteiro inspirado em Agatha Christie dá um frescor a sua novela datada. Mas ainda assim, o filme não emociona, e é um tanto óbvio se você for atento como Poirot.

The haunting In Venice was a nice spookie watch that brought a sence of thrill overall would recommend to watch it again and again

This is one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. All star cast, beautiful setting but the scary side of the film was so overdone that at times I was wondering if it was a comedy (and I'm someone who is easily frightened by load bangs etc.). The very slow start to the film, unbelievable characters and the incessant rain made it depressing and unappealing and Hercule's accent had not improved since his other appearances in Branagh movies. We were thinking of leaving after the first 15 minutes but decided that it would probably get better; should have gone with our gut instinct.

A steady improvement over the previous 2 installments of Kenneth Branagh’s series of Agatha Christie adaptations. The tone is more consistent and Kenneth Branagh’s acting is more subdued. The rest of the cast is pretty solid, with special shoutouts to Michelle Yeoh and Tina Fey. The premise of introducing a supernatural element to the classic detective murder mystery noir is a brilliant concept. It throws a wrench into the typical conventions of murder mystery format. The dark lighting, sharp cinematography, and gothic venetian setting compliment the genuinely eerie narrative. You genuinely can’t tell at times if it’s all a hoax or if there’s legitimately something paranormal pulling all the strings. The final resolution was cleverly supported by a pretty shocking twist that was subtly foreshadowed throughout the whole movie. The door is slightly left open with just enough ambiguity at the end to leave it up to the audience whether there was any supernatural presence in the first place. It’s a good Halloween mystery and it makes me excited for future adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels.

3.5 stars; I expected an Agatha Christie mystery, but instead got a Halloween Fright Night spooky, turn-out-the-lights scare-athon. I don't read reviews before watching a movie. I'll probably watch it again next Halloween when it's more appropriate. However, I did enjoy the 'Agatha' twist ending.

I just watched A Haunting in Venice on prime. So good. It had mystery, intrigue, twists and turns, jump scares, and it all tied together. Best of all? I did not see any part of the movie coming. Highly recommend.

A must-see for all whodunit fans. The acting, direction, cinematography, all of it is top-shelf. A quality production.

The plot was great at keeping your attention, the cinematography was really nicely framed to with the enough artistic ones to make me impressed without feeling too “artistic”. Overall just a good well rounded movie.

I recognize the characters from the Halloween Party episode starring David Suchet. A Agatha Christie story. A Haunting in Venise has a different story line than the original. It's disturbing with the demon type possession and talk of dead children haunting the house. But what I hate most is that this fake Poirot claims he doesn't believe in God. Agatha Cristie's Poirot was always a devout Catholic and always believed in God. This makes me dispise these movie writers who take our beloved authors and change their characters and stories to make them fit into their diverse sickly twisted world. The person playing Poirot is a poor excuse for our brilliant David Suchet. It is wrong on his part that he would veer from Agatha's true character creation just for a paycheck.

The plot is so simple that you could solve the case almost immediately. Furthermore, Poirot is totally out of character and the whole halloween fest is absurd: in Italy this tradition arrived only in the '80 and still now nuns don't see well this tradition :/

Totally not worth it.

Kenneth Branagh continues to act and direct with the best of them. He fits in perfectly with Agatha Christie's work this being his third adaptation. If Branagh continues to make them of this quality, I would have no problem with him adapting the other 36 books. This checks all the boxes for a good murder mystery. It has the varied list of suspects with diverse motives. It has a spooky location that would be interesting to explore on its own. The plot thickens as it goes. And although the movie doesn't tell us everything we need to know to solve the case, it does tell us enough. It doesn't do too much new, but it does an excellent job at being an old-fashioned whodunit.

It is just okay. Okay for a watch on a rainy day in bed. Okay for a classic easily solveable whodunnit. Okay performances from an otherwise great cast.

Remains just as polished as the previous mysteries fondly embodied, in addition to applying skepticism when skillfully disprove occurrences as the sole, departing intrigue, this supposedly spooky endeavor is dissuasively convoluting across the players wandering the flat surface with an irrational foundation. (B-)

Just like the two films before it, a great cast, great visuals, and another great murder mystery.

The third installment (but my first experience) with Kenneth Branagh’s reprisal of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, is a cozy and wet mystery with a splash of horror, perfect for Fall watching. Our protag is of the reluctant hero type, now comfortably living out his retirement in the gorgeous city of Venice. The setting, a haunted, distressed palazzo, is isolated from civilization around it during a storm (and unsurprising séance). Oh, and the palazzo was a former orphanage where a bunch of children were locked up and left to die during the plague — I’m not exactly sure which plague, exactly, given the remains that are found are shockingly fresh. More importantly, however, a contemporary girl was (likely) thrown from her balcony and killed. Poirot is pulled from retirement to solve the (likely) murder. Like any good mystery, everyone is a suspect and contextualized properly, has a believable motive. I loved some of the camerawork when the gang (Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Kelly Reilly, et al.) explores the basement. A Haunting in Venice is entertaining with twists and reveals until the very end. With a supernatural element, I recommend it for a “dark and stormy night”.

This film, on its own, is a fairly decent film. However, one cannot oversee the flagrant disregard Branagh has for the Christie novels and characters. Ariadne Oliver is not American and would never dream of betraying Poirot. Furthermore, it is needless to say A Haunting in Venice is not even a book by Dame Agatha, it is a poor spin of Hallowe’en Party.

Atmospheric, well-acted, and macabre, A Haunting in Venice stands a strong Hercule Poirot entry that is undermined only by stock characters and a painful lack of substance