a5c7b9f00b An Insurance Salesman/Ex-Cop is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home. Now a hard-working life insurance salesman and a caring family man, the former police officer, Michael MacCauley, has taken the commuter rail to New York for the past ten years. But, unexpectedly, things will take a turn for the worse, when on one of his daily journeys, the cryptic passenger, Joanna, makes Michael a generous and tempting offer to locate a single commuter or face grave consequences. Is this a sick joke, or is this indeed a serious situation? As Michael races against the clock to solve this wicked conundrum, everyone aboard is a suspect, in a deal where there&#39;s definitely more than meets the eye. Can he decide in time who&#39;s the one? In 2008 Liam Neeson&#39;s career changed.<br/><br/>From more Oscar worthy projects, the esteemed actor instead became an unlikely action star in his later age with the surprise box office smash Taken.<br/><br/>The film against all the odds was a thrilling and proficient actioner that transformed Neeson from a Schindler&#39;s List, Rob Roy and Kinsey actor, into an actor that now was headlining in films suchthe A-Team, Unknown, Taken 2, Non-Stop, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Run All Night and Taken 3, it&#39;s quite the career change and one that&#39;s clearly worked financial wonders for Neeson, but one that has increasingly lessoned the respect of the well regarded performer.<br/><br/>Continuing on the trend while he still is physically able to, Neeson has again reteamed with his Unknown, Non-Stop and Run All Night directing buddy Jaume Collet-Serra for new thriller The Commuter, that has the fascinating concept and pulse-pounding narrative of Neeson&#39;s ex-cop turned insurance salesman Michael MacCuley walking up and down a peak hour train trying to unlock the identity of a mysterious stranger before his family are murdered by a mysterious organisation.<br/><br/>The Commuter is a sleek looking production, something Collet-Serra has mastered in his relatively young career but this preposterous experience is a dreadfully dull &quot;thriller&quot; that asks the audience to take more than a few leaps of faithits narrative pushes along the train line only to derail around the mid-way point,Neeson tries to look like he cares, in what surely must be a laborious exercise for the star.<br/><br/>There&#39;s nothing particularly smart about The Commuter, the very mystery at the heart of its tale isn&#39;t effectively hooking and its few and far between action scenes feel like cheap knock-off&#39;s of better films (bar a scene where Neeson starts swinging a guitar arounda weapon), making this mid-budget exercise one of the worst of the Neeson-action-naissance, which is saying something when this includes the Taken sequels and Non-Stop.<br/><br/>Final Say - <br/><br/>If the idea of Liam Neeson wondering around a train looking at ticket stubs gets you excited then The Commuter is the experience your looking for, for the rest of us, we&#39;d be far better off waiting for the next thriller train to stop at the station.<br/><br/>1 ½ misused guitars out of 5 Utter rubbish , an hour and a half i&#39;ll never get back, give it a swerve What The Commuter lacks in nuance, depth, surprises, logic and serviceable dialogue…it can’t make up for in its effective single-location tension or well-choreographed action, though both rank among the film’s modest highlights.
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