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Rating:  - Excellent movie
Peter Ustinov put on a great performance as Hercule Poirot. Maggie Smith also had a stellar performance. I would recommend this to anyone.
Bob
East Wenatchee, WA
Rating: - Evil Under the Sun - the movie
Received the movie in a timely manner and in good condition. Would buy from this seller again.
Rating: - A GREAT WHODUNIT!
Evil Under The Sun is full of beautiful scenery, a great soundtrack and is full of great acting all interwoven in a great mystery. Unlike some murder mysteries that tend to get bogged down with long needless detail, Evil Under The Sun will captivate you from start to finish and will not lose you in the middle. Great ending--will keep you guessing until the very end!
Rating: - Evil Under the Sun, Peter Ustinov
I do like this version of Evil Under the Sun. It has a beautiful island setting, Spain I think. The acting is fantastic and the story is very well put together. However, I think I like the David Suchet version of this better. This movie heavily features Cole Porter music, which is really beautiful, but tends to overpower the movie itself. It is also a little long and tends to feature its big star actors more than the story itself. I believe the other version more closely follows the book and the storyline is slightly more interesting, focused on the mystery more than the actors.
Rating:  - Bright sunshine and dark motivations
I enjoyed Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot in "Death on the Nile", so I happily picked up Mr. Ustinov's Poirot follow-up, "Evil Under the Sun". Like "Death on the Nile" and most other Christie TV/film adaptations, on one level this is pretty by-the-numbers stuff: you get an eccentric cast of characters, a colorful locale, someone who everyone has a reason to hate and soon becomes a murder victim (here, a still dazzling Diana Rigg), and the eventual revelation of the murderer/murderers while all sit around and listen to Monsieur Poirot as he unspools the facts. But, also like "Death on the Nile", everything is done so lavishly and in so polished a fashion that the repetitive formula is more of a comfort than a liability. In the end, "Evil Under the Sun" is a lot of fun, and clever, too. And all the Cole Porter music doesn't hurt, either.
Anchor Bay's DVD offers a crisp, bright image, nicely enhanced for 16x19 televisions, and a few modest extras. If you enjoy the mystery film genre, you can't go wrong with this.
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