Just like Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train is based on a bestseller by a female author of thrillers (Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, respectively) who happily explores the dark sides of (anti)heroines in unhappy relationships. But if you're hoping for as good a film, you'll be disappointed.
Director Tate Taylor (The Help) lacks the visual flair and narrative skill with which David Fincher turned Gone Girl into a brilliant film. He does surprisingly little with the cinematically interesting fact that The Girl on the Train has an unreliable narrative perspective.
Due to her severe alcoholism, Rachel can't trust her memories. She stalks her remarried ex and from the train, she watches a couple who appear to be perfectly happily married until the wife is suddenly reported missing.
Good performances by Emily Blunt (Sicario) and others fortunately prevent implausibility from making this feminist update of Fatal Attraction unenjoyable.
US, 2016, dir.: Tate Taylor, dir.: Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, 112 min
Le Stockel, UGC De Brouckère, UGC Gulden Vlies/Toison d'Or
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