Is "The Girl on the Train" this year's
"Gone Girl" or is it this years "50 Shades of Gray"? Sadly this 21st
century 'women's picture' is more Gray than Gone and had me crying out
for the good old days of Bette and Joan. Instead we get Emily Blunt, (so
much better than the material she's given to work with), as well as
Jennifer Lawrence lookalike Haley Bennett and Rebecca Ferguson as three
women caught up in a fairly obvious murder plot. These are women who
have suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune mostly at the
hands of the men in their lives, here played by Justin Theroux, Luke
Evans and Edgar Ramirez.
I haven't read Paula Hawkins' novel but this bestseller seems to me to be fairly aimed at a female audience who know doubt will lap up all the trials on show. The fact that the film isn't really any good certainly won't prevent it from being a huge hit nor will it stop Emily Blunt picking up an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, (she certainly pulls out all the stops), and, of course, director Tate Taylor has already proved his worth where actresses are concerned with "The Help". This certainly isn't in the same class nor does it bode will for Taylor as a director of suspense movies. He reveals the killer's identity too early on and then drags the film out for at least another 30 minutes or so.
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