The A.B.C Murders (1965) Movie Review

The 1965 movie version of The Alphabet Murders ( The A.B.C Murders) did not meet my expectations. I felt as though the plot of the story was rushed throughout the movie. In the first 15 minutes Hastings had already settling in with Poirot and shown the first letter. Even though the movie uses much of the text from the story, it misses a lot of details. It add new details instead of strengthening the foundation for the story. I guess that why people always say the story never compares to the movie of the book when comparing films to novels. Also the characters are not similar to the text in the movie. Many of them have different names which made it harder to figure out who they were. To me, I imagined Poirot to be older, tired and worn out by his previous mysteries. But in this film he was middle aged and looks more energized than tired. This movie is not filled of cons, a plus can be that it is in color. The black and white aspect would have slowed the more down even more. I do not really watch mystery movies so it was funny when I heard the type of mysterious music they used in the background. I guess in the end it was very helpful to have a movie developed for the book I was reading. It helped make me visualize the story I was reading. Hopefully I can find a movie for the next book my group is reading.

Our next book we plan to read is Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz. Since we are trying to go chronologically with our authors, Dean Koontz is a more recent mystery writer.