This film is, overall, very well done in terms of cinematography, acting, lines, etc. I enjoyed the film quite a lot up until the ending. However, the ending utterly ruins it and turned it into a waste of time. That was my opinion when I first saw this in 1988 and this is still my opinion now. The bland, predictable, "happy" ending is totally different from the much more thought-provoking, unusual, and hard-hitting ending that Christie originally wrote and turns what could have been a great film version of one of Christie's greatest books into merely better-than-average typical commercial film. Since the ending is one of the great keys to this story that sets it apart from others, this change in my opinion drastically hurts the value of the film. I give this a 6 because the film up until the ending is really very good, though. It is certainly the best of the British or American versions of this story, but I cannot give it higher because it really is inexcusable to change the ending so. Some say that the original ending would not ever have sold, but many movies have endings that are, in some way or another, not exactly "happy," yet were rather successful films even if not necessarily box-office hits with the mass populace.
Review of And Then There Were None
