Agatha Christie‘s The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side is a bizarre choice for an adaptation, a Miss Marple mystery that limits the amount of time you can feature the detective, and The Mirror Crack’d is an equally head-scratching film in hiding our leading lady even more than the original novel did making Marple a supporting character in her own mystery.
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The most well-received movie of Steven Seagal‘s career, 1992’s Under Siege cast him in the role of a former Navy SEAL busted down to the rank of a cook now serving onboard the USS Missouri. While sailing to California to be decommissioned, during the ship captain’s (Patrick O’Neal) birthday, terrorists take control of the ship planning to hijack the ship’s missiles leaving the cook the only one standing in their way.
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The Beekeeper fits right in among the litany of action flicks centered around a former highly-skilled killer living a normal life who is woken out of his slumber for revenge. From First Blood to John Wick, it’s a well-tread road. Jason Statham stars as Adam Clay, a retired elite assassin (known as a Beekeeper) living off the grid keeping bees on a farm owned by a kind old woman (Phylicia Rashad). However, when she’s targeted by a phishing scam that destroys her life, Clay comes out of retirement for revenge.
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Director McG‘s nonsensical follow up to 2000’s Charlie’s Angels goes bigger and dumber leaning full into cheap gags and T&A at every turn while sticking Natalie (Cameron Diaz), Dylan (Drew Barrymore), and Alex (Lucy Liu) in a plot featuring highly-classified data two random people are just wearing out in public on their fingers, and, eventually, revealing the former Angel Madison Lee (Demi Moore), almost as an afterthought, to be the villain behind the plot.
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The second Agatha Christie adaptation to star Peter Ustinov as master detective Hercule Poirot works better than the first, even if the awkward opening (necessary to wrap-up the case nearly two-hours later) feels completely out of place until the end of the film. While looking into an insurance matter, Poirot travels to an isolated hotel on an island in the Adriatic Sea where the focus of his inquiry, an egotistical gold digging actress (Diana Rigg) who makes more enemies than movies, turns up dead on a secluded beach.
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