The Commuter 2018

     Ex-cop and now life insurance salesman Michael MacCauley has just been let go from his job.  This is a surprise right out of the blue!!  He’s 60 years old, he has two mortgages and his son is ready to go to college.  Michael boards his regular commuter train to go home and he talks to a woman in the seat across from him.  She offers him a substantial amount of money to locate a single commuter on the train.  If he doesn’t find this person, his family could be killed!!  He’s given his wife’s wedding ring to confirm this information and to show they mean business.  How is Michael supposed to find this person?  He doesn’t know this is a man or woman or what they look like.  He is told the name that the person is going by but what good will that do??  This person has a bag that doesn’t belong to them?  Michael is instructed to attach a GPS tracker to this bag?

     There is a LOT of action in this film!!  Michael gets into a LOT of fights on the train.  His phone has been stolen and he has to borrow one from another passenger.  He can’t get in touch his family so he doesn’t know what’s going on there?  He tries to give a message to a police officer but this man is pushed in front of a bus and killed.  Michael has until the last stop for the train to complete his mission!!  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

 

105 minutes, Action directed by Jaume Collet-Serra with Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, Killian Scott, Shazad Latif, Andy Nyman, Clara Lago, Roland Moller.

Note:  Imdb 6.3 out of 10, 57% critic 41% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*, Amazon 3.9* out of 5* with 539 reviews, Metacritic 56 out of 100 with 44 critics 6.3 out of 10 with 122 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Sacramento, California; Surrey, England, UK; New York City, New York; Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.  In Grand Central Terminal Neeson passes a poster for Paddington 2.  This film was released in the US the same day as The Commuter.  Vera Farmiga has second billing but she has only 6 minutes of screen time.  Elizabeth McGovern was in Downton Abbey as the character Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham and wife of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham.