The Girl on the Train (2016)
Country: US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans
Synopsis:
An alcoholic, jilted ex-wife travels daily past the house she used to occupy, and the apparently enraptured couple living there, then past her ex's two doors down, with his new wife and child, and we wonder: can it be long before she goes completely over the edge? Sure enough, one day she sees the newly wed with another man, shortly after which she sees her no more...
Review:
This Rear Window/Hand the Rocked the Cradle hybrid has far too many skeletons and suspects for its own good, meaning that credibility is quickly sacrificed on the altar of the heroine's martyrdom. Furthermore, the presentation is irredeemably tricksy, with a flashback structure that jumps around so much that it makes no kind of sense on a first viewing. The prospect of returning for a second helping, despite Miss Blunt's unfailing professionalism, is, alas, too grim to contemplate.
Country: US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans
Synopsis:
An alcoholic, jilted ex-wife travels daily past the house she used to occupy, and the apparently enraptured couple living there, then past her ex's two doors down, with his new wife and child, and we wonder: can it be long before she goes completely over the edge? Sure enough, one day she sees the newly wed with another man, shortly after which she sees her no more...
Review:
This Rear Window/Hand the Rocked the Cradle hybrid has far too many skeletons and suspects for its own good, meaning that credibility is quickly sacrificed on the altar of the heroine's martyrdom. Furthermore, the presentation is irredeemably tricksy, with a flashback structure that jumps around so much that it makes no kind of sense on a first viewing. The prospect of returning for a second helping, despite Miss Blunt's unfailing professionalism, is, alas, too grim to contemplate.
Country: US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans
Synopsis:
An alcoholic, jilted ex-wife travels daily past the house she used to occupy, and the apparently enraptured couple living there, then past her ex's two doors down, with his new wife and child, and we wonder: can it be long before she goes completely over the edge? Sure enough, one day she sees the newly wed with another man, shortly after which she sees her no more...
Review:
This Rear Window/Hand the Rocked the Cradle hybrid has far too many skeletons and suspects for its own good, meaning that credibility is quickly sacrificed on the altar of the heroine's martyrdom. Furthermore, the presentation is irredeemably tricksy, with a flashback structure that jumps around so much that it makes no kind of sense on a first viewing. The prospect of returning for a second helping, despite Miss Blunt's unfailing professionalism, is, alas, too grim to contemplate.