Murder On the Blackpool Express Review

Well then fellow british peoples i thought i'd review a classic work of art one that has been around for years on end and then i thought i'd review this made for TV movie instead so here is my review of Murder On The Blackpool Express.

The plot of this spoof is a Blackpool coach driver and a tour guide get caught up in a deadly conspiracy when there passengers begin mysteriously dying one by one. If that sounds familiar then that's because this is a spoof of the book Murder On The Orient Express and the story of this film i think follows the same plot of that book but instead puts a comedic spin on it which i loved.

The film stars Car Share's Sian Gibson , Johnny Vegas , Kimberley Nixon , Nigel Havers , Una Stubbs , Sheila Reid , Griff Rhys Jones and Nina Wadia. If your a Brit then you'll know just from the names alone that these are a who's who of British comedy and i can tell you right now without a shadow of a doubt everyone in this film is funny every actor in this film at one point had me laughing.

Now i've mentioned how funny the actors are in the film and that's because the film has a lot of really funny character driven jokes and one of them is actually really dark and is also a spoiler from the word go the jokes come thick and fast and for me all of them landed but with that being said i would understand if people didn't find the jokes funny.

As the plot and the title would suggest this is also a murder mystery and for me that's where the film fails just because they ignore the mystery aspect of the film and focus more on the jokes and because of that the film makers don't drop little bits of knowledge as to who the murderer could possibly be and so when they do make that reveal it comes out of know where.

I will admit that even tho i knew this film was set in and was filmed in Blackpool i honestly thought for a few seconds in the third act that they filmed in Southport and i've been to both places plenty of times and i know what the sea front for both places looks like and yet i still thought they went to Southport this is nothing against the movie but it's something i had to say because it lets you know that people who review films and TV shows are still just people.

Overall if you are in Britain and you have a telly box then i suggest going onto to catch up right now and watch this film it's that good if your not in Britain then sorry for me tho this film gets a solid 8 out 10.