AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT: SERIES 13 DVD

David Suchet is simply marvelous in the roll of Poirot. I think this is the last season of the series.

Only reason got Britbox. Fabulous acting and well written scripts. Great for who done it types.

While it is true that I watched most of the Poirot series on Netflix, I had to purchase the final two series on DVD because they are not yet available for viewing on Amazon instant video. They are well worth purchasing. This is the final series. There are five roughly 90 minute movies with a bonus 20 minute interview with David Suchet. Well, not really an interview, but him responding to common fan questions, which are presented written out on the screen and then him commenting.These mysteries are each based on novels rather than short stories and hold up well for the extended length of each episode or movie.“Elephants Can Remember” is the last of the Poirot novels published except for “Curtain”, which was written decades earlier, but published last for obvious reasons. It is a fascinating story about an engagement and a decades old murder or suicide or what? Everything seems lost or hidden or shrouded in secrets no one wants to divulge. Who has the truth? Poirot will unravel all.“The Big Four” is a novel that began life as a series of short stories. It is about a supposed crime syndicate or cabal running the world and driving it towards war. Does it exist? Is someone using its reputation to hide his or her own crimes? Is the mad genius to brilliant for even Poirot?“Dead Man’s Folly” - Poirot is asked to come help by his friend, mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver. She has been asked to put together a murder mystery party for the guests to solve, but Ariadne suspects a real murder is about to happen. Poirot is perplexed on how he is to solve a crime that has not yet occurred and might well never occur.“The Labours of Hercules” has Poirot in the Swiss Alps trying to identify a vicious mastermind of an art and jewel thief. He is feeling a bit undone because he had promised to protect a young woman who had acted as bait for the police but was killed despite Poirot’s attendance.“Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case” is a return to Styles where a sick and ailing Poirot confronts a person addicted to murder but who gets away with it because somehow they are never connected to the violence.I loved these episodes and will enjoy them again. I think you will, too.Enjoy.Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Saline, MI

Beautiful filmography. Great acting and casting. Wow.

Loved the cast

I was a teenager when my teacher of a British lit class I had to take in High School handed me my first Agatha Christie novel. It wasnt a Poirot, in fact it would be a few years before I first read one of his books. But, that teacher started me on a life long love for Agatha Christie. I have read almost all of her books, including all of the Miss Marple and Hercule Poirots, and seen almost all adaptions of both. Their are two over riding truths- there was only one great Miss Marple, Joan Hickson, and only one Poirot that mattered, David Suchet. All this leads up to this DVD set. I have seen a number of things recently including on the set where Suchet talks about playing and becoming Poirot. I have seen comments by Agatha Christie's family that they truly with that she could have seen him in the role because she would have loved him and seen her Poirot in him. These last five adaptions of Poirot stories were really good, although I thought "The Labors of Hercules" may have altered the book too much. The real star of the set is "Curtain". It is hard not to know the ending, but it is literally an end to the series. I knew how it ended from having read the book a long time ago, but it was still a shock. I was hoping they would film this before something might happen to David Suchet, but it's still sad to see the end of easily one of the greatest series of mysteries ever. If you're not careful, the ending will make you cry. I'm not ashamed to admit that it did that for me.

Suchet is a brilliant Poirot

Well as the character Q put it to Captain Picard in "All Good Things" a final episode of Star Trek The Next Generation: " Captain, All Good Things Come to an End, " and so it is with M. Suchet and our beloved Poirot. I live how in Ep.6 he explained how well he loved the character so much so that he filmed the end first and insisted when the final season came about the BBC would let him do so. I've been an Agatha Christie fan since childhood and I knew that one day eventually her final book on Poirot would be made. That Mrs. Christie just like Charles Schulz the "Father" of 'Peanuts' cartoons would end their series on their own terms not leaving it to another to complete after their lifetime was over. And so it is with "Curtain" the final case. Brilliantly played the 13th season by all those actors. As one person wrote "All good thongs come to and end , even a book we relish no matter how long we deter reading the last pages. " The end is always near but what a satisfying ending indeed. Bon M. Suchet and all those we watched "play the game" as Poirot says the English play! lol

What can I say? It's Poirot! Although I did not care for the facial transformation. There was nothing wrong with his original mustache. And there was a bit too much face powder. Once you start watching though, you get over these petty changes. Then there is the very noticeable absence of the silly Captain Hastings and Miss Lemon in the usual format.I most certainly did not care for Poirot dying. I watched the episode only to experience the work but I will not watch it again. Poirot does not die. He is like the good tisane. You need it to keep going. And lots of kudos to David Suchet. What an actor!

Must watch finale to a great series.

Il est difficile de rajouter quelque chose d'original aux commentaires élogieux des fans de cette série dont je suis. Je découvre vraiment la saison 13 en blu-ray avec une qualité d'image et de son au top et enfin avec deux bonus de choix: des documentaires sur l'auteur et créateur du mythe Poirot - A. Christie - et sur l'acteur qui a incarné pendant un quart de siècle le détective... belge! - David Suchet. Nous sommes presque aussi émus que lui à la fin du tournage de la dernière scène du dernier épisode... car ce personnage atypique nous accompagne depuis fort longtemps à la télévision et avec le temps les épisodes ont gagné en beauté plastique et le mythe Poirot/Suchet s'est construit. David SUCHET ne se remettra pas d'avoir été si longtemps le visage, la voix et l'attitude de POIROT et nous non plus.J'avais découvert deux épisodes de cette ultime saison sur une chaîne du câble mais en version française et bien s'il y a une chose qu'il ne faut pas faire c'est regarder "POIROT" en VF NON, malgré tout le soin apporté parfois au doublage - celui-ci appauvri grandement le jeu des acteurs surtout celui de SUCHET: car Hercule P. c'est aussi une voix inimitable "de tête" comme dit l'acteur.Beaucoup de nostalgie dans cette saison: la photo des épisodes, Hercule vieillissant, le retour de ses trois amis de toujours - Hastings, Japp et Lemon le temps de quelques scènes. Il y a aussi la présence de l'excellente actrice qui interprète Ariadne Olliver et qui apporte humour et fantaisie à l'ensemble.BREF, la série restera un bijou télévisuel par sa qualité générale et on ne se lassera pas de voyager dans les enquêtes complexes de monsieur Poirot. 25 ans d'âge pour un show TV: une longévité qui témoigne d'un engouement constant de la part du public et d'une passion de l'acteur pour son personnage. Adieu Hercule.

only Agatha Christies can write such wonderful stories

La série s'achève en beauté avec des épisodes sombres qui illustrent bien l'état d'esprit de Poirot, qui au fil des saisons deviendra de plus en pus pessimiste. David Suchet à très bien sut rendre cette évolution au fil des saisons. En en effet la vision du monde, le caractère de Poirot se sont assombris au fil du temps. Une mention toute particulière au fidèle Capitaine Hastings qui dans ces cinq épisodes est certainement le personnage le plus émouvant. Jusqu'au bout il fera preuve d'une fidélité sans faille envers son ami.