Jennifer Aniston was always basically the hottest Friend, and now she has a psychological thriller movie. So, hey, that’s for me! Off went I to Derailed on Wednesday, and that was worth the effort of going to. This guy meets a hot chick on a train, they start down infidelity highway, and then things go suddenly awry; but not in the Glenn Close hide-your-bunnies manner.
As always, one moment of truth could have re-railed the whole situation, but the tragedy of psychological thriller lead actors is that they’re flawed with dishonesty. And so instead of admitting to his wife what happened the very first night, our hero is drawn ever further along the road to hell, with no offramp in sight. And that’s what the movie is really about: how you react to the gradual, inevitable dissolution of your life. Except, given the genre, you know someone is going to get shot by the end.