(spoilers) Personally I have no objection to screenwriters changing the story of a book / play when they are adapting it to the film medium - as long as the changes are improvements (in my eyes). I don't think the changes to "Ordeal By Innocence" are improvements: the whole point of the story - the irony at the center of it - is that the entire "present day" investigation was a disastrous folly, because Jack WAS guilty after all, despite having an alibi; by making Jack innocent, this irony is lost. (end of spoilers) Other than that, this version is moody, gripping, stylized, handsomely produced and has a top-notch (and quite attractive) cast; this family is a total mess and there is no Poirot or Marple in sight to clean it up - they'll have to do it themselves. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of Ordeal by Innocence
Ordeal by Innocence
(2018)
Gripping, but misses the essential irony of Agatha Christie's story
20 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers