The Commuter Reviews

To be honest, I didn’t have some really high expectations but since I have a weak spot for Liam Neeson and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, it was a nice surprise that Florence Pugh was involved with a small apart but I’m afraid it was probably the only interesting thing about this flick. Indeed, to be honest, I really had a hard time to care about the damned thing. I don’t know, maybe, by now, I have seen too many similar action flicks starring Liam Neeson (it was already the 4^th one he made with this director only…) but I think the story was actually pretty weak, at least, even weaker than usual. I mean, I didn’t mind that the action was taking place on a train. Indeed, ‘Non-Stop’, Collet-Serra’s and Neeson’s previous collaboration was taking place in a plane and, even if it was completely preposterous, at least, it was fairly entertaining. However, in this case, right from the start, the whole thing barely made sense whatsoever. I mean, if the whole point was to get rid off of some witness, was it the really the best way to reach this goal? Anyway, basically, the end-result was that you get to see Neeson endlessly walking up and down this freaking train giving some weird looks to the other passengers which was hardly entertaining. Sure, there were a few decent action scenes but they were really over-the-top and using too much some rather cheap looking CGI. Finally, even if, so far, Liam Neeson had been more than welcome in such rather weak action flicks, I wonder if he wasn’t miscast this time around. Anyway, to conclude, I thought the damned thing was really weak and it’s really time that Neeson find something else to do with his time and talent.