Review of The Commuter (2018) by Tony P — 22 May 2018

The Commuter is your typical Liam Neeson film nowadays.

He seems to have found a niche in the pre-retirement age action club that has perhaps overtaken the likes of Sylvester Stallone and definately Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It began with the Taken franchise of films, Unknown, Non-Stop and continues with this entertaining (if you dont want any artistic merit or clever clog stuff) film.

In the Commuter he plays a New York ex-cop Michael MacCauley who for the past ten years has reinvented himself as an insurance salesman! (Not an ageing action film star in it for a quick paycheck!).

He is given the bad news that he is being made redundant and the story centres on his daily commute via a very nice looking commuter train (by U.K. standards anyway - we are used to inferior trains but that is another subject) with regular commuters it appears.

Anyway on this particular day he gets talking to a mysterious woman who offers him a shed load of cash if he finds a passenger on the train with an unknown cargo called Prynne (who he later works out is a witness to a murder, hence why people want her killed!).

Who wants her killed? Could it be some corrupt police? Oh I have given away some plot!

Entertaining film that is okay for its run-time of 90 minutes or so but could have got boring if it dragged on any more.

The special effects towards the end as the train derails at high spped look a little shoddy by modern standards and reminded me of a tram crash on a UK TV soap opera Coronation Street a few years ago!