The Woman in Cabin 10 is made for people with limited attention spans – review

of netflix woman in cabin 10 There is Agatha Christie for the age of mindless scrolling. This is a murder mystery that only works if you’re not really paying attention, and are happy with the fact that the characters on the screen aren’t really paying attention. It’s also Keira Knightley’s latest entry from period drama to stylish thriller official secret (2019) and black pigeon (2024), the latter also with Netflix.

He suits this style. That flirtatious candor — the understanding that she’ll ask all the right questions and then invite you out for a drink — works as well for spies as it does for history’s leading ladies. As yet woman in cabin 10 It is the weakest and most disposable.

Knightley plays Laura “Lou” Blacklock, an investigative journalist. Guardian His final work on NGO corruption left him with a dead informant and a haunted conscience. She’s allergic to leisure, so as a change of pace she picks up a frothy “human interest story”: a Norwegian heiress (Lisa Loewen Kongsli) suffering from terminal cancer and her husband (Guy Pearce) set up a new research foundation that, conveniently, will begin with a benefit cruise on their private yacht. Lo is invited to watch and write some complimentary words.

Parachuted deep into the realms of the one percent, Lou is obsessed with luxury, yet makes glaring mistakes in getting ready for dinner. When she bumps into a mysterious woman next door (in Cabin 10, you might have guessed) and sees the typical signs of foul play: loud noises, blood splattered on glass, a splash, and then Bon journeys to a dead body.

In short, it’s another “eat the rich” narrative. white lotus, blink twice, nine complete strangers, Success– If I tell the names of the others, we will both get tired. Ironically, its source material, Ruth Ware’s 2016 novel, is nearly a decade older, more strongly associated with the era of entertainment featuring gas-burning women in various locations (…in the window, …on the trainetc etc).

So, we’re gifted with two bad instincts in one, as all of the yacht’s special guests (three of them played by Hannah Waddingham, David Morrissey, and Kaya Scodelario) conspire to convince Lou that there was no woman in Cabin 10, and that she should really check out that PTSD when they get back to shore. She has a potential ally: photographer Ben (David Ajala), who is also her ex. The breakup was not entirely amicable.

you can debate that woman in cabin 10 A timely film about the threat of journalism from capitalist interests, disbelieving women, and the impunity of the rich. Even AI gets vision eventually. But undoubtedly it is not so. Any social relevance here is just a name-checked excuse for nice interiors, nice clothes, cheap thrills and attractive people, crammed into a neat hour and a half.

It ends with a plot twist that you’ll see coming about 15 minutes in, if you’re actively listening to any dialogue. Unfortunately this will also mean you’ll hear the doomed Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Low’s twice-seen colleague speak in the first scene: “Are we talking now about stealing NGO funds from starving children or about your checkered romantic history?” That said, then you will not consume woman in cabin 10 As intended – nothing more than an out-of-focus series of events unfolding from behind your Instagram feed.

Director: Simon Stone. Starring: Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Hannah Waddingham. Cert 15, 95 minutes.

‘The Woman in Cabin 10’ is streaming on Netflix