Sorry, this movie sucks

Perfect cast and a good story

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Rating this as a 6,5, witch is the current status, is absolutely absurd. Movies below 6 are are often rubbish, one have to rate 7 or up to rate a good movie. This is a good movie. The plot is not super-original, but it is original above the average thriller. Rachel, the main caracter, alcoholized, is suberbly played by Emily Blunt. She even have the alcoholics red skin around the cheek-area. Superb make-up. Apart from that, the story is well put together, and the last half of the movie makes up for the kind of slow beginning.

I wished I would have missed this train wreck because it was a slow moving, over dramatized, artsy-fartsy mess. I kept waiting for the film to get better, but it just kept getting worse. Thank God I bought a copy of this film on sale to watch at home and I didn't have to pay full price at the exorbitant theater ticket prices.I enjoy a good thriller/mystery but this film was a total mess. I give the film a generous 3 out of 10 rating only because I think the lead actress Emily Blunt did her best with a rotten screenplay. Mrs. Shullivan read the book and she felt that the book was also very convoluted. But why the producers cast a sole British actress to play the lead when the rest of the cast are all U.S. based actors residing in a major U.S. city, it just wreaks of a poor attempt to increase overseas ticket sales.If they made me watch it a second time I would have preferred to jump in front of the train instead.

This is an excellent mystery/thriller that had me 'grasping at straws' for a solid hour or so, trying to figure out who was 'good' and who was 'bad.' And...it's punctuated with a "killer ending!" (Yes, pun intended ~)Plot in a nutshell: An alcoholic loner subject to blackouts (Emily Blunt) immerses herself in a missing-persons case in which she becomes a prime suspect.(First let me state I have not read the novel on which this film is based. So my review and impressions are formed solely from watching the movie, where they should be. It seems most of the negative reviews here are from people who read the novel, then apparently watched this film with a notepad in hand, already knowing the story and the outcome but eagerly marking down every area that doesn't match the book, and then coming here to write negative reviews to vent about it. No offense to them (or you, if you are one of them), but the point here is to review the FILM - not to compare and contrast the film to the novel (or to anything else, for that matter). If you want to write a review of the book, go to Goodreads.com and write it there! This site is for the film, and it's what I want to know about. All of these reviews on here telling me about the book, and then giving a poor rating because the film isn't exactly like the book, are irrelevant and out of place. Let's talk about the FILM....)And yes, it's a very good one. Emily Blunt does such a masterful job of playing an alcoholic social outcast, I agree with some others on here wondering why she wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award. It's that good. She plays one of three women around whom the story largely revolves (Rebecca Ferguson and Haley Bennett are the others). These three are all loosely connected in various ways that are not obvious at first but, through flashbacks and story shifts, we are gradually shown how they tie together. One of the three goes missing and the plot then shifts to solving that mystery. Saying much more than this will ruin the story so I'll draw the line there. But I will say I found this to be highly entertaining and was constantly shifting my opinion as to who was the guilty one. At one point I guessed right (as it turned out) but I changed my opinion based on what was happening, only to find out I had been right 20 minutes ago! But that's the beauty of this film - just when you think you've got it figured out, you are given a new shred of information that makes you question everything you'd accepted before. That's good story-telling and worthy of acclaim. It's not a stretch to say "The Girl on the Train" comes from the same mold as the Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock classics. If you like those, you'll probably like this too.8/10. Effective and intriguing mystery that deserves a much higher rating than it's current 6.5 here. Would I watch again (Y/N)?: Yes.

If you've read the book I would avoid watching this. The book was amazing and I got into it so quickly, the fact that this followed the book very loosely was a bit of a disappointment for me. If you haven't read the book then you might enjoy this, it's okay but a bit over the top with the melodrama