' THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 ' : FILM REVIEW

MURDER ON THE SEAS : Netflix's The Woman in Cabin 10 starring Keira Knightly is a highly recommended dark thriller.

The Woman in Cabin 10 - an adaptation of the 2016 novel by Ruth Ware, adapted by Stone, Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse. - a curious somewhat self-conscious Keira Knightly plays Laura Blacklock, a journalist for The Guardian.

Who is asked to accompany billionaires on a yacht, but takes it upon herself to find the identity off the passenger in Cabin 10 - a room where no one has ever stayed according to the ship's records.

As with any thriller, there is a murder - but is there really one, or is Laura hallucinating that part because of a recent trauma? Stone doesn't let that recent let that thought linger longer than necessary, and the film is better off that way.

The pace and the pay-offis slick, with the runtime clocking in at 95 minutes, and most of the film set on the luxury yacht.

Irrespective of the one-big location setting, the film never becomes claustrophobic, despite the predictable reveal and turns of the villain or the climax, which feels a few notches on the dumber side.

Stone is a serious filmmaker who is painfully aware off the path most thrillers walk. Instead of making a run-of-the-mill murder mystery, which this film may very well have turned into at any given moment [ or in anyone else's hand]. 

Stone gives the film a thick, believable, beautifully cinematic atmosphere that is cold, uncaring and, yet, just right given the genre.

The film comes highly recommended, but is relegated to the second spot of Netflix top 10, because people just cannot stop putting Bollywood movies in the number one position.

The World Students Society thanks Mohammad Kamran Jawaid.