Thursday, October 13, 2016

Film Review - The Girl on the Train (2016)

The Girl on the Train is based off of the novel by Paula Hawkins and stars Emily Blunt as Rachel an alcoholic woman who takes the train every day and sees a young couple in love in a house by the sea but when a woman named Megan (Haley Bennett) goes missing she becomes a part of the puzzle.

This was an okay thriller that at times becomes a little too twisty turny for its own good combined with some pretty edgy scenes of violence and though many have compared it to Gone Girl the main comparison for me was 1992's Shattered which starred Tom Berenger and was made by Wolfgang Petersen in that you have an unreliable narrator with memory problems but whereas that film had an interesting mystery this one becomes much more predictable by the end.

What did redeem it a little bit for me was the performances Blunt is fantastic here and every scene she has you can't take your eyes off her and its sure nice to see her in a good role so quickly after her horrible work in the Huntsman spinoff from earlier this year, I also loved seeing Rebecca Ferguson again from Mission Impossible Rogue Nation last year and Bennett was fine though she really does look a lot like Jennifer Lawrence.

And so that was the Girl on the Train an okay thriller redeemed by a great performance by Blunt, 2 out of 5.

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