“Murder On The Orient Express” (** out of four) was a sputtering remake of the Agatha Christie story about an investigator (Kenneth Branagh who also directed) trying to unravel a murder on a train ride with 13 strangers (Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, and others) and soon no one knows who to trust. Visually lush and well-cast but story isn’t funny enough, suspenseful enough, or simply entertaining enough to come together and make this material worth revisiting. Branagh does a serviceable job on both sides of the camera but is stalled by stale material.