She rides to nowhere every day. This should have been the first clue that this movie was going nowhere.

The Girl On The Train dives into the lives of three women with different personalities, desires and concerns. The main character is Rachel (Emily Blunt), whose husband has cheated on her with a realtor. She has lost everything, including her home and marriage, blaming her misfortune largely on her alcoholism.

The film really dwelt on building the premise behind Rachel’s life, and how she is supposedly the victim of circumstances. The flashbacks Rachel gets are placed sporadically between the larger scenes and in the form of short glimpses.  It is sometimes  hard to tell  whether something actually happened or not.

Blunt does a good job portraying a girl who thinks she is insane, however the plot for this movie is predictable and tedious.

The flashback structure is  unsatisfying, and the climax leaves an abundance of questions, so much so that the movie might have benefited  from either taking the time to further flesh those revelations out, or by stripping them down.

The movie almost tries to fake its way through being an intense thriller. It never fully makes the cut of being a genuinely good thriller movie. This movie had a lot of potential, coming from a critically acclaimed novel, but failed to live up to that potential.