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Title: The Girl on the Train (2016)
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The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson's life post-divorce. Every day, she takes the train in to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus on her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down -- Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. She has only a feeling: something bad happened. Then come the TV reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying to find out what happened to Megan, where she is, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing.
Based on Paula Hawkin's novel of the same name, 'The Girl on the Train' is a predictable mystery thriller that lacks suspense and originality. The premise itself is inventive, but the film failed to offer excitement that I so looked forward to.
Emily Blunt gives a powerful performance as Rachel, a depressed alcoholic who rides the train everyday to Manhattan and back. She is obsessed with spying on her and her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux)'s house (which can be conveniently seen from the train), and his new life with Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), a girl he cheated on her with. The story gets messy when Megan (Haley Bennett), who lived next door and is a nanny employed by Anna and Tom, goes missing and Rachel is suddenly personally involved in the chaos.
Blunt has to sacrifice her beauty for this role and she was as compelling and real as she could be given the circumstances. Her forlorn, lifeless appearance suited the film's dark and dreary mood. Sadly, the characters are just as colourless. The film could only afford a singular exploration of their emotions and they had no opportunities to create depth to their personalities. You've seen stereotypes of those characters all before.
The story itself is excessively melodramatic. I was hoping that it was more than just your standard affair mystery, but as it turns out, it was exactly that. The time jumps designed to create more suspense for revelations was instead confusing for the audience, given that we already have to follow three separate story lines simultaneously.
A great mystery thriller usually keeps me pondering, wondering, and enthralled throughout. This 'Girl on the Train' however, sucks all your energy out and leaves you feeling empty. I felt exhausted sitting through this film. Apart from a couple of shockingly brutal scenes, there is really nothing in this film that would get your heart pumping. The final revelation of the villain is staged at a point that you realise there couldn't really be anyone else.
This is such a disappointing film that if I was on the train to witness the story, I would have looked the other way.