11.05.07
Derailed
Derailed features the romantic pairing of quintessential hot British guy Clive Owen with quintessential cute but sexy American girl-next-door Jennifer Aniston. How could they go wrong with that? It’s bound to at least be sexy and fun to watch, right?
WRONG.
I only watched the first 30 minutes or so, but what I gathered was that both Clive and Jen are in unhappy marriages and both have daughters. They meet on a train (title!), try to begin an elicit affair but on their first night together in a seedy Chicago motel, they like get mugged and it’s very violent and then they start getting blackmailed by the guy that robbed them. Clive Owen’s daughter is dying of Type I Diabetes (the bad one!) and Jennifer Aniston’s husband is total dick (I guess?). I turned it off after this. Also, Clive Owen is an advertising executive, because god forbid we have a movie in which the male protagonist has a job that isn’t ad executive or attorney. Whatever.