Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express ” is a visual feast, bursting with movie stars, glamour and production value so high, you might just exit the theater experiencing some time-warp whiplash. Certainly no studio would make a straightforward whodunit with a budget the size of a modest superhero pic (and no superheroes to speak of) nowadays, you think.
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