Review of Five Little Pigs

This was a very well done adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel with a few notable exceptions. First, Ms. Christie never resorted to cheap tawdry sex in her books, just the suggestion of improper behavior. I was therefore a little disappointed that the makers of this film saw the need to throw in a bedroom scene between Elsa and Amyas. The other major letdown was the fact the Philip Blake was a homosexual. In the book the reason for the hatred that Philip felt toward Caroline Crale was because he was in fact very attracted to her. This was a major change as far as I was concerned to the storyline and one that I didn't really deem necessary. There is also the very end with Carla pointing a revolver at the real murderer of her father. That again was not in the book and again didn't fit in with the storyline. For avid Agatha Christie fans, they would realize at once that it was a dramatization from a screenwriter trying desperately to do a better job than Ms. Christie herself.

I enjoy this series immensely, I just wish that the folks that do the adaptations would stick to Ms. Christie's style and writing a little more and avoid the needless sex and violence that this generation seems to enjoy so much.