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Lives are on the line
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
The Commuter
2018 Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
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Liam Neeson Vera Farmiga Patrick Wilson Jonathan Banks Sam Neill Elizabeth McGovern Killian Scott Shazad Latif Andy Nyman Clara Lago Roland Møller Florence Pugh Dean-Charles Chapman Ella-Rae Smith Nila Aalia Colin McFarlane Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Adam Nagaitis Kingsley Ben-Adir Damson Idris Andy Lucas Ben Caplan Letitia Wright Simon Hibbs Jamie Beamish John Alastair Aoife Hinds Alana Maria Jaime Menéndez Show All…
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"if you wanna know what god thinks about money... look at the people he gives it to."
collet-serra brings his usual layered compositions + tight, rhythmic cutting to another exciting pulp thriller (dude gets his shit kicked in with a lefty guitar!!!), but his formal attempts to depict the communal language of the working class..? chef's kiss. best title sequence this side of fincher's Dragon Tattoo. fuck you goldman sachs.
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the opening sequence (one of the best in years) starts the film out as this optimistic of synecdoche new york, and then quickly becomes a wild conspiracy thriller, all while maintaining its fun and b-movie trashiness.
a total surprise.
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this movie could have ended at the scene where liam neeson beats a guy with a guitar and i honestly wouldn't have complained. everything else is just a bonus.
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Sturdy but unsurprising. If you're looking for an impeccable formal exercise featuring a train as an analog for runaway capitalism do yourself a favor and re-watch UNSTOPPABLE.
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Economic anxiety and our mechanized life. The Hollywood and late capitalist machinery at work, one and the same, with police state conspiracy as mediator. The American working class might not go to heaven, but has a meeting with a derailed train. Jaume Collet-Serra, Hollywood de facto #1 working man, is no Tony Scott, he will punch the clocks and keep the engines running (give or take the occasional dodgy CG and plot mechanics), but he will also see everything.
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okay this felt like more than a typical liam neilson film for me, it kind of felt a lot darker and a lot more exciting! I loved it!
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No one could have thunk after Schindler's List that Liam Neeson would become the next Charles Bronson. They don't have the same mannerisms but they have the same mid-budget, testosterone-raged thrillers. The Grey is Neeson's White Buffalo (or Death Hunt--always rep for Death Hunt ). You have their comparable franchise fare - Death Wish/Taken. Bronson's got Dirty Dozen, Neeson has The A-Team. And now they each have a coveted train-set film, Bronson's being the underrated Breakhart Pass. Bronson characters always had a bone to pick with someone where Neeson's guys are always out to redeem themselves and/or solve a mystery. Whatever their motives, they follow the same means.
Both actors didn't hit their archetypal apex until their 50s. Neeson is…
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Eigentlich gefällt mir die Grundidee des Films sehr gut: Wie weit würde ein Normalo für so eine Menge Geld gehen? Vor allem wenn das finanzielle Wohl seiner Familie davon abhängt? Wieviel sind unsere moralischen Grenzen wert, wenn wirklich jemand versucht sie zu kaufen? Leider wirft der Film diese interessante Prämisse schnell zugunsten eines 0815-Actionstreifens über Bord, wie ich ihn von Liam Neeson in den letzten Jahren schon unzählige Male gesehen habe. Das ist zwar erneut unterhaltsam, aber bis zum Finale mit schlechten Effekten doch sehr vorhersehbar. Da hätte mehr draus werden können als ein letztendlich nicht mehr als belangloser Actionstreifen.
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Auch wenn ich grundsätzlich kein Problem damit habe, dass Liam Neeson seit Taken gefühlt nur noch die selbe Art von Film macht, ist The Commuter nun doch ein Werk, dass die Welt nun wirklich nicht gebraucht hätte.
Zwar ist der Film nicht schlecht, an einigen Stellen - wie z.B. bei der Anfangssequenz - gut inszeniert und einige Actionszenen sind recht gelungen. Ebenso unterhält einen der Streifen durchaus. Aber dennoch wirkt alles ziemlich belanglos, konstruiert und bis zum Ende vorhersehbar.
Die Geschichte an sich wurde wahrscheinlich an die hundertmal in anderen Filmen in ähnlichen Varianten erzählt und reißt einen auch nicht vom Hocker. Die Macher dachten sich wohl, dass man sie in der Konstellation "Liam Neeson im Zug" noch nicht hatte… -
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