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Honestly, for how long the movie is, I wasn't bored. I watched it with the fish and my mom and when I told them at the end that it was three hours long, they couldn't believe how fast it went by. Once again we have a Japanese Poirot, who we already met in Orient Express, so we already know what he's going to be like. He's still extravagant and more like the one in the book, or Finney, than the distant Suchet most Czech audiences are used to, so it's possible they won't feel any affection for him. At least that’s how it was in the Orient. It's just that The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is not such a well-known and (cinematically) famous story that even a big Suchet fan will enjoy this TV movie. Because you'll forget about Suchet and just have the story retold as written by Agatha Christie. The acting, the costumes, the setting, the interiors... all of it was really precisely presented to the viewer; so if you like classic detective stories, you won't be disappointed. It's not about action and carnage, it's about the grey matter of the brain. (31.12.2020)