The Commuter ***
The story unfolds as Neeson plays the Insurance Salesman who on his daily commute home on the train is approached by a mysterious stranger (Vera Farmiga, Conjuring fame) to find a particular passenger who "doesn't belong" and he will get $100,000 in return. Shortly here after his life spirals into a chaos that makes Northern Rail look phenomenal.
The two most successful parts of this production are the leading actor and the director. They know there stuff and smash the Action genre with great success. Neeson embraces the genre with ease, reliability and hops, skips and jumps (in some scenes really far) his way through the narrative that in recent years has given him such a successful platform.
Great talented cast additions like Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad) and Sam Niel (Jurassic Park) are given very little to do and their skills as actors are not rewarded by great dialogue either both have pretty unexciting lines to phone in.
If you can ignore weak plotting, logic and an almost shameful recreation of the ending of Non Stop at the airport you are still left with a entertaining action thriller that has clear stand out moments of suburb action from a extreamly original guitar knife fight to a cripping train crash if you let great actor/director go for it they deliver the goods. And if you had delivered them a better script I think they really could have raised the bar. In pun terms this train ride could easily have been upgraded to first class.
Popcorn Thriller with some funny lines, good action and not so twisty plot.
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