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Derailed is supposed to be a tight, twisty, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Instead, it's a bloated movie that telegraphs all it's plot twist. The idea behind a twist is that you don't see it coming. If you see it coming from a mile away, it's not really a twist.

Charles Schine (Clive Owen) is a struggling ad executive with a strained marriage and a sick child in need of her fourth kidney transplant. While on the commuter train one morning, he meets the stunning and very married Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston). The two flirt. Flirting leads to lunch. Lunch leads to drinks. Drinks inevitably lead to a seedy hotel. But before they can consummate their tawdry affair, a French thug named LaRoche (Vincent Cassel - who played the break-dancing Eurotrash bad guy in Ocean's 12) burst into the room. After a unnecessarily brutal scene where Charles gets beaten and Lucinda gets much worse, LaRoche ends up extorting money from Charles. Charles is so desperate that he uses the money they've saved for their sick daughter to keep his wife and more importantly Lucinda's husband from finding out the truth about the almost-affair. Both LaRoche and Charles have trusty black sidekicks that lend them credibility. LaRoche has the gun-toting, sadistic Dexter (rapper Xhibit). Ex-con and company mailroom clerk WInston (played by rapper The RZA of the Wu Tang Clan) has Schine's back.

For Derailed to work, Owen and Aniston need to work. Owen works for me as a nice guy who gets himself caught up in a situation where nice isn't going to be enough. In fact, he gets in so far over his head, he has no choice left but to get nasty. Aniston gets points for trying to go against type. I guess she's sexy in a 'girl next door' sort of way but she's just not sexy enough for this role. She had zero chemistry with Owen. Cassell as the bad guy was just too much. It seemed like everybody else was going for a low-key performance and he came in in hyper-overdrive. His changing accent, seemed to visit every country in the European Union.

I realize you have to suspend disbelief in any movie. But I just couldn't accept that a man would use his sick child's transplant fund to cover up an affair.

Consider yourself warned, there is a particularly brutal rape scene in the movie. Half of the women in my audience covered their eyes. Honestly, it was seriously uncomfortable. It was also, in my opinion, unnecessary. There are other ways to convey that a woman has been raped. They really didn't have to take it there.

If you are seriously fiending for a thriller, Derail will do. Just remember to check logic and half your brain cells at the door.