Countries Ban DEATH ON THE NILE Due to Gal Gadot’s Military Service
By Movieguide® Contributor
Lebanon and Kuwait have banned DEATH ON THE NILE from their theaters, citing star Gal Gadot’s military service.
Gadot was a member of the Israeli Defense Forces for two years, as mandated by her native Israel.
The Daily Mail reported Kuwait’s officials decided to ban the Agatha Christie-based movie after a social media uproar. One official said they would not allow a movie starring “a former soldier in the Zionist occupying army” to be shown.
Social media users also criticized Gadot’s support of her home country online.
“My heart breaks,” Gadot tweeted last year after a particularly violent day in the Gaza strip. “My country is at war. I worry for my family, my friends. I worry for my people. … I pray for the victims and their families. I pray for this unimaginable hostility to end.”
— Gal Gadot (@GalGadot) May 12, 2021
Lebanon also banned Gadot’s previous movies, WONDER WOMAN and WONDER WOMAN 1984.
Movieguide® selected WONDER WOMAN as one of the 2017 Best Movies for Families, and WONDER WOMAN 1984 was one of the 2020 Best Movies for Mature Audiences.
DEATH ON THE NILE was the top movie over the weekend, raking in just over $12 million domestically.
A portion of the Movieguide® review reads:
DEATH ON THE NILE has a light moral worldview, but the morality of exposing and catching the killer is overshadowed by the tragic circumstances of the murders committed. The tragedy is later enhanced when Poirot reveals in the middle of the movie that his bride-to-be, Katherine, was killed when a bomb struck the hospital where she was administering to Poirot and the other wounded soldiers. This revealed fact leads to an ending that’s more sad than fun and uplifting. That said, DEATH ON THE NILE is a crackerjack mystery, with one of the more startling whodunnit solutions in the work of the amazing Agatha Christie, the grande dame of detective fiction.
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