By Emilio Frenk
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramírez, Laura Prepon, Allison Janney and Lisa Kudrow.
Rating: Poor
Tate Taylor, director of “The Help” and “Get on Up” brings “The Girl on the Train” and this movie is not even close to Taylor’s early work.
Based on the best selling novel written by Paula Hawkins, “The Girl on the Train” tells the story of Rachel (Emily Blunt) a depressed and alcoholic divorcee who rides a train everyday for her commute.
Everything will change for Rachel after she witnesses a dissaperance from the window of the train and becomes a prime suspect of the investigation.
Now Rachel will try to do anything to prove her innocence before it´s too late.
The thing that bothered me the most from “The Girl on The Train” is the fact that it was too repetive and the movie begans to be very slow. The movies abuses of flashbacks that are told in a way that don’t work and the movie doesn’t make any sense and this in part is due to the screenplay written by Erin Cressida Wilson, who's most notable work are movies like "Men, Women and Children" and "Chloe". The dialogue is over the top and elements of the movie that were here were not relevant for the story.
The direction by Taylor was not accurate and precise like in his previous films and the acting is less than compelling and convincing.
The movie had everything to be a good movie but the cast was wasted. I think Emily Blunt is a great actress and we have seen performances by her in movies like “Sicario” where she was fantastic. Here was not the case and she tried a huge effort to convince us as the audience to believe her character but it didn´t work.
Hope this movie is a leraning experience from Tate Taylor who has done really good movies and hopefully we can see a good one from him in the future.
For all being said I cannot give “The Girl on the Train” a recommendation and makes it one of the weakest movies of this year and one of the biggest dissapointments as well.