The Girl on the Train Film Review

Finished watching The Girl on the Train, directed by Tate Taylor and starting Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett and Luke Evens. The film opens with Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) on her daily train ride into New York that goes past her old house that her ex husband (Justin Theroux) is currently living with his current wife (Rebecca Ferguson) and their daughter. One day after Rachel gets extremely drunk the night prior news comes of the disappearance of Megan Hipwell (Haley Bennett), a woman who lives a couple of door down from Rachel old home and who she has been fixated on due to Megan seeming to have a perfect marriage with Scott Hipwell (Luke Evens) only for Rachel to see Megan with another man on the train earlier on the day she went missing. This leads to Rachel trying to help find Megan in her own way that leads to many different twist and turns along the way. Overall this was a good film as it deals with the constant build of tension throughout the film story while also being very character driven for Rachel with how she tries to uncover the truth of what happened to her while she was drunk and also what happened to Megan. The mystery itself of Megan's disappeared is dealt with very well while the other mystery of what Rachel saw that night is just as good and the way the two intertwine is just as great. The layout of the film is very intriguing and captivating in the way that it's been executed as it show how Megan's life was like leading up to the events of her disappearance as the audience and Rachel discovers more during the duration of the film. 7/10.