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Post #1386089

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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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Date created
14-Nov-2020, 11:58 AM

Agatha And The Midnight Murders - 2020 - 6/10

Agatha Christie, financially strapped, opts to sell an unpublished manuscript to a Hong Kong editor.
Dateline 1940. During the height of the Blitz, she and her driver venture into a darkened nightclub.
Inside are a dozen assorted guests, gamblers, and unknowns. And then the sirens begin to wail.
Locked room mystery has good cast and acceptable location.
Nonetheless, this is, essentially, a one room play. The lighting is dim, the sound is murky.
Fifteen minutes in, I bark, “The villain better not be so-and-so because that would be so obvious.”
End of the show, my prediction proved accurate, which means the writing is neither clever nor creative.
(I am not exactly the brightest Mystery sleuth.)
Wasted potential.