Review of The Commuter 2018 Full Movie: Man is approached by a creepy woman. Man gets caught up in something dangerous. Explosions happen. There is a ticking time bomb. We must complete task or chaos ensues. Wildly unoriginal. Just plain ridiculous. The Commuter is a classic January thrill ride, and by ride I mean disaster. But what were we expecting, really? A good movie? Honestly, I had some hope for this one. Liam Neeson held my interest slightly higher than should ever be for a movie like this.
And, unfortunately, just as I predicted, it bombed and bombed hard. the commercials for this movie made it seem like it would be a little bit more action-packed than it was. I thought his other movie Non-Stop was a better movie and I enjoyed it better than I did this movie. I didn't think this will be picked up really until the last quarter of the film. I would say wait to see it on a cheat day.
He seems to have found a niche in the pre-retirement age action club that has perhaps overtaken the likes of Sylvester Stallone and definitely Arnold Schwarzenegger. It began with the Taken franchise of films, Unknown, Non-Stop and continues with this entertaining (if you don't 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!
He is given the bad news that he is being made redundant and the story centers 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 wants her killed? Could it be some corrupt police? Oh, I have given away some plot! An 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 speed 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! action and intensity throughout, and you have this "Whodunnit" element which keeps you glued to the screen but it's not that different to the rest of the movies that Neeson has made lately. In this film, Liam Neeson plays an Insurance salesman, Michael MacCauley, who loses his job after working for his company for 10 years. With 2 mortgages to pay, and his sons college fees due, he doesn't know how to break the news to his wife, who is worried about how they are going to afford their sons fees. On his usual route back home on the train, Michael is approached by a woman, Joanna (Vera Farmiga) who offers him $25,000, and a further $75,000 if he can find Prynne, an unknown passenger, and plants a GPS on them.
Out of curiosity, he goes to the location of the money, and he is surprised to find it hidden in the toilet. Michael then looks around the train for a person with a bag but with the train being so busy, he finds it hard to track the person down. After trying different methods to plant the tracker on the correct person, he decides to turn down the mission but when he finds out that his family is in danger, and the mysterious person on the phone kills another passenger, he soon realizes how serious the whole situation is.
As he has to find the correct person before the train gets to the end of the line, time is against him so he tries to get help from his old partner, Alex Murphy (Patrick Wilson), whose in the NYPD. When Michael finally comes face to face with the culprit, he realizes that all is not what it seems, and with the police thinking that he has hijacked the train and taken the passengers hostage, he fights to prove his innocence whilst keeping the victim safe. It's not the most original storyline for this genre but the situation does become extremely intense towards the end. The action scenes, especially the train crashing scene, were well put together and Neeson plays his role well but it's nothing that we haven't seen before. With that aside, it's still worth a watch, if you're in the mood to watch Neeson kickass once again but don't expect a movie spectacular. Watchable!
He seems to have found a niche in the pre-retirement age action club that has perhaps overtaken the likes of Sylvester Stallone and definitely Arnold Schwarzenegger. It began with the Taken franchise of films, Unknown, Non-Stop and continues with this entertaining (if you don't 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!
The special effects towards the end as the train derails at high speed 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! action and intensity throughout, and you have this "Whodunnit" element which keeps you glued to the screen but it's not that different to the rest of the movies that Neeson has made lately. In this film, Liam Neeson plays an Insurance salesman, Michael MacCauley, who loses his job after working for his company for 10 years. With 2 mortgages to pay, and his sons college fees due, he doesn't know how to break the news to his wife, who is worried about how they are going to afford their sons fees. On his usual route back home on the train, Michael is approached by a woman, Joanna (Vera Farmiga) who offers him $25,000, and a further $75,000 if he can find Prynne, an unknown passenger, and plants a GPS on them.
As he has to find the correct person before the train gets to the end of the line, time is against him so he tries to get help from his old partner, Alex Murphy (Patrick Wilson), whose in the NYPD. When Michael finally comes face to face with the culprit, he realizes that all is not what it seems, and with the police thinking that he has hijacked the train and taken the passengers hostage, he fights to prove his innocence whilst keeping the victim safe. It's not the most original storyline for this genre but the situation does become extremely intense towards the end. The action scenes, especially the train crashing scene, were well put together and Neeson plays his role well but it's nothing that we haven't seen before. With that aside, it's still worth a watch, if you're in the mood to watch Neeson kickass once again but don't expect a movie spectacular. Watchable!
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