Review by echaczyk

Rachel (Emily Blount) can't keep her nose out of other people's business. She passes her old house on a train to a job she no longer has and hasn't had for a year. She can't bear children and her husband divorced her because of this and the fact that she became a stumble-bum drunk. He married a woman who was more stable and did give him a child. But Rachel still has to keep track of him, to the point of stalking him and the neighbors. She drowns her sorrows in alcohol and seems to blackout often which makes for clichéd story telling. You've seen this amnesia plot point so many times in movies and it isn't any original here.

Rachel hears that the babysitter of her ex-husband's baby is missing and then later found dead. With all of her past stalking and blackouts, Rachel tries to solve the murder and most importantly, try to exonerate herself. With the limited amount of suspects and an even smaller list of motives, it wasn't hard to figure out who the killer was.

This movie, at 1 hour 52 minutes is 22 minutes too long. At times, because of the lingering facial shots and the stupid looks on the actor's faces, I started hating this movie, especially Emily Blount's character, Rachel. At every turn of the plot, she was sticking her nose into other people's business, and usually in a drunken state. Imagine if Columbo was a drunk who staggered and passed out frequently, and was trying to solve a crime. It sounds funny but this movie wasn't played for laughs.

This would have been a better movie if Rachel had witnessed a murder from the window of the train and then tried to convince others that it had happened while avoiding being killed by the murderer. But that would have been a Hitchcockian movie.