Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playThe big screen adaptation of The Girl on the Train, like Gone Girl before it, arrives with an inbuilt audience, Paula Hawkins' book having sold 11 million copies since it was published early last year. That's Rachel, a 20-something divorced Londoner who spends much of her life in an alcoholic haze marked by amnesia-inducing blackouts, making her an unreliable narrator. Perpetually drunk or hung-over, Rachel's eyesight is still up to peering across Westchester's big backyards from her window seat. But the cops do have to be a few steps behind so Rachel herself can play detective. Only Blunt's gutsy performance keeps The Girl on the Train on track while so much is trying to derail it.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 06, 2016 00:22 UTC