Watched Nemesis. I remember reading the novel and getting bored, and the DVD had the same effect on me.

An old and distinguished friend of Miss Marple passes away, but not before he sends her a message asking her to try and find out the truth about a certain, undisclosed situation. She and her nephew Raymond West, a mystery writer, join ten other guests of the deceased (making 13 characters, including the female driver) on a "mystery tour" pre-arranged by the deceased, to three locations. Unbeknownst to everyone, everyone is connected in some way or other with one another, a la Ten Little Indians a.k.a. And Then There Were None.

The first 15 minutes of the production are truly exciting, even if the dramatis personae are introduced to us inside a barn in that stagy, cinematic method used in  the Hollywood production of Murder on the Orient Express. The last 30 minutes, I must say, are equally exciting.

Sadly, everything between the beginning and ending  is B-O-R-I-N-G, because no one followed two guidelines that my favorite drama mentor, Rolando S. Tinio, taught me:

--If the audience/reader does not know what is going on, they will eventually lose interest and not care about anything.

--If none of the characters knows what is going on, the same thing will happen.

Add to this two of my own observations:

--In real life, physical disguises will never deceive intelligent people, especially if they are traveling close together in a group.

--When you follow a detective, you have to know why and what for, otherwise you will look like a fool.

Watching Towards Zero next, but I'm saving that for tomorrow.