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The Girl on the Train (2014)
Overwritten but compelling
As other reviewers have noted no-one speaks the dialogue written in this film. It can easily be seen as pretentious and try hard. The philosophical dialogue is hard for the actors to work with - actors love the authentic and the real and it is not there in this film. The lead actress comes off the best with the written material. The male lead is wooden at times. The actor cant be the male hero he wants to be with this dialogue. Some of the messages or morals in the writing are good though and make you think twice. Actors are addicted to stories and authenticity but here teh script makes their work hard - which is interesting. The cop later in the story is beyond wooden, he is just bad. The story line is complex and engaging though and not at all predictable. I watched to the end wanting to know the outcome.