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Nicely paced thriller starring one of my favorites, Liam Neeson, I thought it had good action scenes, great pacing, enjoyed the premise, and loved the opening montage conveying without telling how the main character – the titular commuter – really does take the same route via train again and again to and from Tarrytown, New York and Grand Central Terminal in New York City (also the montage conveyed nicely the love the main character had for his family). Along the way the opening time lapse montage also establishes that the central character not only knows the train route and the train very well but also knows a regular group of commuters and train employees (at least by face, though a few he seems to be genuine friends with); these facts are important later.
The story centers on Neeson’s character, Michael MacCauley, a former NYPC police detective turned insurance agent. Commuting every work day back and forth from Tarrytown, we see he has a stable life, a loving wife and son, and also between his wife and his work and their bills (and their son soon going off to school which appears to be quite expensive), the family is barely making ends meet.
Until he gets laid off very early in the film. As he is riding home, not having told his family yet he is out of a job, he gets approached by a seemingly friendly, chatty, and intelligent woman, first speaking in hypotheticals about what would he would do essentially for a large sum of money, some money up front and some after it was complete, one he was uniquely talented and in position to complete, but one he has no idea of its larger consequences or import. Would he do it he ponders, as he realizes the woman wasn’t speaking in hypotheticals at all but as an actual job offer?
Turns out the woman wants Michael to find a passenger, one only known by an alias, and a package this mystery passenger has that the people the woman works for want very badly. Just plant a GPS tracker in the passenger’s bag and his job is done the woman assures him. He has no other information to work with, he doesn’t know anything other than the alias name of this passenger and that the person is carrying a package (no idea of race, gender, age, occupation, etc.), he doesn’t know what the package is, he doesn’t know what the people the woman works for want the person for (she tells him the mystery passenger has something that is stolen but other than that doesn’t elaborate on any possible fate for this thief).
Oh and the people the woman works for will be watching him, with people on and off the train keeping tabs on him, his family, and before this began they took his cell phone. Better find this person before the train reaches the end of the line, all without running afoul of his minders should he decide he can’t go through with this, not calling police to check on his family, and not arousing suspicion among passengers and crew with his investigations and being arrested and detained himself. Just a few more stops to find this passenger (he knows what stop the passenger is going to disembark to).
I liked how every element in the film – Michael’s police background, the fact he regularly rode the train and knew many of the regulars and could thus spot new riders, his family’s financial woes, Michael having contacts still in the police department – all played a role. I liked getting to know and bond with the regulars as the movie progressed. It has been a while since I have seen any action film that spent so much time on a train and I really enjoyed that as well.
A good action film, it has been too long since I have seen a Liam Neeson thriller!
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