Otherwise, I don't have any other significant issues with this installment of the Poirot series. You find out things within the first 5 minutes that would have been best left until near the end. Certain key elements of the mystery are revealed way to early in the script. My biggest complaint with Murder on the Links comes from a flashback at the very beginning of the movie. The train station and the hotel are both amazing. Sure, there are one or two discrepancies here and there, but overall, the movie looks incredible. I'm no expert, but the movie looks like it's straight out of the 1930s. Another big plus for Murder on the Links is the attention to detail taken in the sets and the setting. The supporting cast is strong, but none of the actors really stand out above the others. Hugh Fraser gives another wonderfully understated performance as Poirot's Dr. I've run out of positives to say about David Suchet. And other than one significant issue I have with an early flashback (which I will get to in a moment), most of the mystery elements from the book are here and most work satisfactorily. I suppose, however, one has to expect that certain creative licenses will be taken to adapt Christie's books to the screen. There are a number of changes from Agatha Christie's original work most I didn't really care for.

As with Hickory Dickory Dock (which I wrote about yesterday), Murder on the Links is a good episode, just not a great one.

Poirot must look back into the past to stop a killer from murdering again in the future. But to Poirot, these events seem oddly familiar and quite suspicious. With no other witnesses, the police quite naturally believe the woman's story. His wife is found bound and gagged with a story of two Chilean kidnappers that took her husband in the middle of the night. A very wealthy man's body has been discovered in a sand bunker at a golf course with a knife in his back. While on holiday with his friend, Captain Hastings, renowned detective Hercule Poirot is pressed into service to help solve a murder.

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