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Summary: A & E cuts out scenes!
Review: I really love the Poirot mysteries and this DVD is of very high quality in sound and picture, but I watched this when it was released on TV, (and taped it). The DVD is missing scenes! Why A&E has done this with every one of their DVD's, I do not know. I buy the DVD wanting the entire episode, nothing cut. This will be the last A&E DVD I buy unless they can tell me they are going to provide the full product I feel I purchased. I will stick to the DVD's that are released by Acorn Media, they are uncut.
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Summary: A & E cuts out scenes!
Review: I really love the Poirot mysteries and this DVD is of very high quality in sound and picture, but I watched this when it was released on TV, (and taped it). The DVD is missing scenes! Why A&E has done this, I do not know. I bought the DVD wanting the entire episode, nothing cut. This will be the last A&E DVD I buy unless they tell me they are going to provide the full product I feel I purchased. I will stick to the DVD's that are released by Acorn Media, they are uncut.
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Summary: Mesopotamia Murdered
Review: Long before that criminal madman George W. Bush, there was a second American invasion of Iraq: not by jingoistic soldiers seeking non-existent weapons of mass destruction, but archaeologists who care far too much for the past of a country where human civilisation arose to let the museums be ransacked. That archaeological expedition was the subject of Agatha Christie's MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA (1936), a detective story that, although presenting several interesting characters, a splendidly drawn archaeological dig, and a tense atmosphere, suffered from a solution matched in sheer improbability only by John Dickson Carr's IT WALKS BY NIGHT (1930).The latest Suchet adaptation, however, is barely faithful to the book. Instead of two murders ingeniously committed and equally ingeniously solved, the viewer is presented with a series of ridiculous sub-plots: to wit, Poirot's infatuation with the Countess Rossakoff (cheap love interest to satisfy the Mills & Boon / Harlequin public); and a completely irrelevant murder not found in the original book. Instead of a problem rationally set out for the reader to solve, there is precious little detection, but a great deal of fluff: simpering performances, hysterical fits, and a plethora of cliches. This sort of thing is embarrassing; and certainly not up to the level of the L.W.T. productions.
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Summary: In The Land of Two Rivers
Review: Thank GOD for George W. Bush for standing up to the Butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein. Yes, intelligence for going into Iraq was flawed but Bush had it in his heart that he wanted Hussein GONE, he wanted the people of Iraq to be FREE. No more torture chambers and mass graves. The nation will remain in chaos for some time but maybe hopefully the status of the nation will become that of a decent, upstanding, democratic and free nation the way it was when this movie, Murder in Mesopotamia, took place. Hussein was the real criminal madman, Bush is not. Anyone who thinks differenty must have their head checked. Iraq will be restored to prominence in the Middle East, a place where archeological expeditions can take place, where great stories can be written such as this one by Agatha Christie. Under Hussein the nation was at a dead end. Thanks to Bush we can look forward to great things in Iraq. I recommend this movie.
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Summary: In The Land of Two Rivers
Review: Thank GOD for George W. Bush for standing up to the Butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein. Yes, intelligence for going into Iraq was flawed but Bush had it in his heart that he wanted Hussein GONE, he wanted the people of Iraq to be FREE. No more torture chambers and mass graves. The nation will remain in chaos for some time but maybe hopefully the status of the nation will become that of a decent, upstanding, democratic and free nation the way it was when this movie, Murder in Mesopotamia, took place. Hussein was the real criminal madman, Bush is not. Anyone who thinks differenty must have their head checked. Iraq will be restored to prominence in the Middle East, a place where archeological expeditions can take place, where great stories can be written such as this one by Agatha Christie. Under Hussein the nation was at a dead end. Thanks to Bush we can look forward to great things in Iraq. I recommend this movie.
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