Film Snail

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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

NR·2020·102m

Drama

Adventure

Mystery

Drama

Adventure

Mystery

Summary

After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.

Cast

Essie Davis

Phryne Fisher

Nathan Page

Detective Inspector Jack Robinson

Izabella Yena

Shirin Abbas

Rupert Penry-Jones

First Lieutenant Jonathon Lofthouse

Daniel Lapaine

Lord 'Lofty' Lofthouse

Jacqueline McKenzie

Lady Eleanor Lofthouse

Miriam Margolyes

Prudence Stanley

Khaled Abol Naga

Sheikh Kahlil Abbas

John Stanton

Crippins

Nicole Chamoun

Shirin's Mother

William Zappa

Assist Commissioner Forsythe

John Waters

Professor Linnaeus

Mehdi Lamrini

Abdul

Brice Bexter

Captain Templeton

Holly Austin

Mrs. Templeton

Ian Bliss

Vincent 'Monty' Montague

Hugo Johnstone-Burt

Constable Hugh Collins

Ashleigh Cummings

Dorothy ‘Dot’ Collins

Anthony J. Sharpe

Cecil Yates

Travis McMahon

Bert

Lee Mason

Wilson

Joshua Lin Hodge

Frank

Mansour Badri

Prison Guard

Huw Jennings

Awkward Young Man

Robert Shook

Fleeing Man

Glenn Van Oosterom

Uninformed Constable

Timna De Silva

Alexandra's Dead Lover

Thomas Filer

British Captain #2

Tristan Sime

Photographer

Abdelghani Bouigna

Policeman

Peter Fourber

British Police Captain

Soussi Mohamed

Street Vendor

Salma Kamal

Young Shirin

Crew

Director

Tony Tilse

Script Consultant

John Collee

Script Consultant

Ysabelle Dean

Script Editor

Keith Thompson

Writer

Deb Cox

Reviews

r96sk

September 2, 2020

Just short of being a film I enjoyed.

It's worth noting I have never seen an episode of the television series, though with this being a standalone film it doesn't seem to be a problem - I didn't feel like I needed to know anything major throughout the 102 minutes at least.

I almost felt entertained by <em>'Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears'</em>. It's well acted, shot fairly nicely and has a decent plot. Essie Davis does good in the lead role of Fisher, while a few of the other cast members around do alright things. However, everything about this feels sluggish to me. It never feels strongly connected or exciting, with all the events just occurring without much fuss. The score is weak, also.

Not a bad film at all, just a bit meh.