Review: The Commuter Is More Than Taken On A Train
- Jan 24, 2018
- 1 min read
From the director of the best shark movie since Jaws and Taken on a plane comes an enjoyable thriller with a bit too much Hollywood for its own good.
Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson) has gone through the same routine for the past ten years. He catches the same train morning and night, day in, day out, things never change. Until today. When a mysterious woman approaches him with an absurd offer, $100000 in cash to find a person on the train who doesn't belong. Michael has until the train reaches the last stop to find the odd one out, and things are rapidly turning against him.
I went into The Commuter expecting a decent, if generic, thriller. And I was pleasantly surprised. The mystery of who doesn't belong is interesting, Neeson is great, as always, and the few plot twists and red herrings scattered throughout mostly land. There's not a lot of action, though the two or three sequences are suitably mean and confined with one long take fist fight standing out as one of the better hand to hand fight scenes of recent years.
The only real issue with the film is in its final act. Things get blown out of proportion very quickly, the plot ties up the loose ends a little too neatly and there isn't much of a villain. But other than that, it's a good time.
The Commuter is a lean, mean thrilling machine that, aside from an end that seems to sparkle with false positivity, is definitely worth the price of admission.
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