Starring: Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux

Official Movie Summary: The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson’s life post-divorce. Every day, she takes the train to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her old house.

The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus on her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down – Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage.

The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. She has only a feeling: something bad happened. Then come the TV reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying to find out what happened to Megan, where she is, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing.

Acting: Emily Blunt is an absolute marvel throughout the course of this movie, and she essentially allows this movie to have any life at all with her incredible performance. She brings the true image of a raw and pained alcoholic to the big screen, and she really brings a breath of fresh air to both the movie and Hollywood as a whole. Though Blunt carries more than her own weight, the rest of the acting was lackluster and unmemorable, with Rebecca Ferguson especially disappointing in her disgusting depiction of Anna. Overall, Emily Blunt was the sole highlight of the entire film, with the rest of the cast churning out an especially unmemorable performance.

Plot: This is, by far, the worst part of the film. The plot and script of The Girl on the Train is an incohesive and dull mess, and its flashback structure is extremely unsatisfying. The climax is also a disappointment, leaving an abundance of questions and almost zero answers. This almost leads one to question whether the movie would have benefitted more if it had just fleshed out these revelations or got rid of them entirely. Overall, the plot of the movie was a dull, incohesive, unoriginal, and entirely disappointing disarray of points fromthe book that never really came together in the end.

Overall: Although Emily Blunt gave the performance of her life, The Girl on the Train’s terrible plot and unmemorable supporting cast make it just a far inferior clone of Gone Girl.

15% An Absolute Piece of Garbage That Only Serves to Show Just How Much Worse Hollywood Has Become. (Sorry)