Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Directed by Sam Yates. What the hell does that mean? Yet another relatively recent jumping on the band-wagon of using Agatha Christie's name to pull in audiences, only to either butcher the original story into oblivion so it is unrecognisable or using Agatha herself as the sleuth to avoid copyright issues with Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot. Add a Review. Sorry. This, the second story to imagine authoress Agatha Christie to be caught up in a murder mystery of her own, sees her travelling to Iraq to stay with friends at an archaeological dig. 10 /10: 9 /10: 8 /10: 7 /10: 6 /10: 5 /10: 4 /10: 3 /10: 2 /10: 1 /10: Apply. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2020. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. At least the ones made in the 80s were entertaining. a wet young upper-class Englishman in the 1920s-1940s. In its denouement, which you could see coming for quite some time, it simply proved what Christie fans know: the queen of crime is not easily emulated. When Agatha arrives she finds Max injured by a bullet wound in the head and not long afterwards when she gets to the house where those involved in the dig are staying a pet monkey is found hanged! He must have been waiting down there for ages. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. The story is a speculation in what happened to Agatha Christie after her divorce when she went to research romance in Mesopotamia, where, according to this story, she got her hands full with new mystery challenges and also romance. Seeing this author that so many people love solve these fictional murders is a nice twist and I think it tributes Agatha’s brilliant mind is such a positive way. You need a whodunnit around Christmas time. Britons give up on Christmas: Just 13% believe coronavirus rules will be eased by the festive season amid... 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Boris Johnson made the muscles in Keir Starmer's neck tighten like cheesewire: HENRY DEEDES sees the Prime... Covid Big Brother! So far I’m loving this “Agatha and the” alternative history series and I love seeing Agatha Christie of all people solving murders. After a while I gave up and switched off. Whilst not a direct sequel, nor does it feature any of the original cast, writer Tom Dalton has intended … A bit disappointing really, didn't warm to character of Agatha Christie. Prime Minister comes under pressure to water down... Is YOUR business ready? Channel 5 make another original Agatha Christie mystery movie featuring Agatha Christie turned crime investigator. Regarding the storyline though I have seen a lot of people say it was unrealistic or over sexualised/dramatised but in all honesty I loved it. Arriving at the house Agatha is somewhat suprised to find that Katharine’s beloved pet monkey Ella has been murdererd and hung from the ceiling. Television Review. One running joke was that Agatha couldn’t sleep, because the middle-aged archaeologist and his wife in the next room were having noisy and fairly kinky sex. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. He winced, sat down and announced he would start dying in 15 minutes. I’ll be amazed if there’s anything more accidentally hilarious this Christmas. The comments below have not been moderated. Agatha said things such as: ‘I went surfing with Bernard Shaw. Highly recommended. No one had set foot in the place for 2,500 years, he assured his faithful Iraqi assistant, Faisal, who sported a Saddam Hussein-esque moustache. Give me Ms Marple anytime. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Seeing no harm into looking into the death of a monkey Agatha begins her investigation. She solves a real life murder of course. Another enjoyable melding of fact and fiction. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The overall acting was quite good and obviously deserved a much better rating but it was almost entirely negated by the soundtrack. Sleepin_Dragon 15 December 2019. Here's what's happening and what... '£10,000 for a couple of cheap balloons and petals on the floor!' Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Even if he were better, the script would still be anachronistic anyway.