The Girl on the Train is a thriller directed by Tate Taylor about a woman who goes missing(Haley Bennet), her neighbour(Rebecca Ferguson) and a woman who sees her everyday from the train(Emily Blunt).
The main cast all give good performances, with Emily Blunt standing out as an alcoholic divorcee. If the performances were not convincing in a film like this then it would all fall apart. The Girl on the Train didn't need bad performances to derail it, instead it had a laughably bad ending and an extremely obvious twist.
In my Miss Peregrine review earlier today I talked about how the ending made me think less of the film. The ending for this is so horribly bad and obvious that it takes it from a decent mystery thriller to a disappointing mess. I enjoyed the first half of the film and was going along with it. But that ending is just awful... I really want to go in depth with spoilers but you might want to see it so I won't. The writing is quite good in the first half as well, but as the film goes on it gets progressively worse. There were moments when people in the screening I was at were laughing at the (I presume) unintentionally bad dialogue.
In Short: The Girl on the Train starts off well and has good performances, but has a predictable plot and gets progressively worse as it continues.
I probably won't post any reviews at the weekend but I might have a review for Allied on Sunday.
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