Agatha Christie's Poirot

This episode was yet another highly entertaining Poirot story. The way this whole episode was set up is pure brilliance. 5 versions of the story by 5 different persons, all those versions are so different but yet very similar. Different by the perfective of what are the feelings of the person telling the story towards the other characters and similar because it`s all the same plot....this is brilliant dynamic to a story.

During the episode, I was fearing the ending could be disappointing but how wrong I was.

I came to suspect Caroline`s sister to be guilty and did seem to go that way at a very moment but bang, Poirot strikes again and we get yet another brilliant end to this very captivating story.

Five Little Pigs always struck me as a Poirot novel that would be very hard to adapt. Poirot is not very active, and a good portion of the story is him reading long narratives from the five suspects. Luckily, the film is a faithful adaptation that does the tricky job fairly well. The actors are all excellent, particularly Rachel Stirling and Gemma Jones. The only actor I did not like was Aimee Mullins, who played Lucy Crale in a very dull and uninteresting way. But the main problem with the film is the flashbacks. Apparently the director really wanted us to understand that these were flashbacks, and he found it necessary to jerk and bump the camera around as much as possible. After viewing these scenes, you want to throw up! This cinematography is not flattering to the storyline. And that storyline itself, I must confess, get a little stale in some moments. Not to mention that I wish Poirot had a bigger role. However, if you overlook these flaws, you will find yourself enjoying this mystery and its great characters.