Soon enough, though, the audience learns that Ratchett’s real name is Cassetti, and that, a few years before, he murdered a 3-year-old heiress named Daisy Armstrong. The suspects are 13 larger-than-life passengers, most of whom seem to have no connection to the murdered man, Edward Ratchett (Johnny Depp). Murder on the Orient Express tells the tale of renowned detective Hercule Poirot, a Christie staple, as his relaxing three-day journey aboard the Orient Express devolves into a chaotic murder investigation. This post contains major spoilers for Murder of the Orient Express.* It’s the big twist at the end of the novel, the one that Christie fans will see coming and the one that will shock audiences who go blindly into Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation. Anyone who’s read Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express knows what the “what the fuck” moment is at the end of the new movie of the same name.
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