It's a scintillating premise, to pit the mystifying supernatural against someone who is acutely logical. Poirot's third outing has a cracker of a script, a fantastic actor in Kenneth Branagh and an excellent atmosphere but is let down by countless unnecessary jump scares and stunningly awful camera angles.
A mixed bag, as mixed as it can get, A Haunting in Venice pulls us into its central orbit which rotates quite vehemently but loses momentum and ends up frustrating by the time puzzles are laid bare.
