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The Commuter

2018

Jaume Collet-Serra

Liam Neeson, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Sam Neill ...

5.6

10,366

Mystery. Thriller Michael MacCauley, a life insurance salesman and former police officer, is a family man with a wife and teenaged son. He goes through the same routine train commute to work and back every day. His daily routine is interrupted when he is abruptly laid off from his job after a decade at the same company, leading him to wonder how he will pay his mortgage or afford his son's college tuition. On the train home, Michael meets a mysterious ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Thoroughly enjoyable to watch if totally forgettable once you leave the theater (...) It's totally over the top, yet impressive in the way it uses every element in the train as a suspense mechanism."	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"It’s so concerned with its own sheer speed that any semblance of storytelling logic is left waving from the platform (...) That's not to deny the transient pleasures of 'The Commuter'"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The silliest of the low-rent, high-impact thrillers that Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson have made together (...) The film makes the fatal mistake of showing its hand too soon"	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"[Jaume Collet-Serra] frontloads the thrills and sticks too much plot in the caboose (...) For much of its running time, however, this is a solid story"	NEU
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"'The Commuter' is solid, b-level Hitchcock (...) A well-sketched thriller (...) Made with skill and humanity, one that uses its specific location to its advantage both for storytelling and suspense."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Collet-Serra is a B-movie magician, even when the plot strains (...) Silly? You bet. Irresistible? Totally (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Joe Dziemianowicz New York Daily News	"The film delivers its share of popcorn-style entertainment, curves and thrills. But it stalls due to plot holes and murky storytelling (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sarah Ward Screendaily	"'The Commuter' is never boring, though its initial moral quandary isn’t the novelty Collet-Serra and company think it is"	NEU
United Kingdom	Steve Rose The Guardian	"You know where it’s going and it gets you there perfectly well, but in a few years’ time you’d be hard pressed to distinguish it from dozens of similar journeys (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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