Director Tate Taylor went down a taylor-made cinematic arena and took an auteur ride with "The Girl on the Train". The movie stars a fantastic Emily Blunt as Rachel; a lonely, depressed, and alcoholic woman who rides a train everyday that passes by the house she used to reside with her ex-husband Tom. A few houses down, there is another house Rachel fixates with, it's one of a blonde woman named Megan who appears to be happily married to her husband. But Rachel is literally a trainwreck due to her lushing ways, and when she sees one day (obviously from the train) that Megan might be having an affair, Rachel goes more off her rockers but not off her Johnnie Walkers. What follows on "The Girl from The Train" I will leave for you to get on track with. Taylor does provide some twists & turns in this psychological thriller, but nothing that will shock you. The up-and-coming Haley Bennett does impressive work as Megan, and Rachel Ferguson was quite steady as Tom's new wife Anna. The rest of the supporting cast including Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez, and Allison Janney needed more "train"ing for this one. But to put it bluntly, it was Emily Blunt's "on the right track" performance that made this movie watchable. So don't miss your stop for "The Girl on the Train", but if you do, it's not the end of the world. *** Average
Review of The Girl on the Train
