"The Commuter" is about a 60-year-old man whose repetitive life is interrupted by a time-sensitive mystery on a train that threatens the lives of all the passengers aboard. He receives instructions to solve this mystery by Vera Farmiga. If I hadn't known better, I might've thought I was watching a reworking of "Source Code" (2011). After all, the opening credits sequence shows Liam Neeson going through the same basic routine everyday, which always results with him commuting to and from work--plus train, plus Farmiga. But, no, instead, it's "Non-Stop" (2014), with the same star, with the twist being he's on a train this time rather than a plane.I miss the simplicity of the "Taken" series and the more-acceptable logic that a former CIA operative would have "a very particular set of skills" that would allow him to kick butt even as he enters the age of a senior citizen. In "Non-Stop," at least, he's still a federal air marshal, but, now, in "The Commuter," he's a former insurance salesman and even-more-former police officer. Talk about straining credulity. Most people, including police officers, go their entire lives without ever having the athleticism and combat skills of Neeson's salesman. If they do continue this path until Neeson's character bounces out of his wheelchair without an ounce of combat training in his past careers to beat up guys half his age or younger, then I hope the plots aren't as convoluted as this one.And Farmiga is not in her mid-30s, as the police captain suggests. If audiences can accept the premise of an elderly man leaping between railroad cars like he's prime Michael Jordan, then I think they can accept that a mid-40s-aged woman is attractive.

Lots of good acting wasted on a convoluted, illogical and ridiculous plot. We're supposed to believe all of these unconnected characters connect on what is probably the dumbest location to find an unknown witness who could have been protected in any number of ways. The ending shows they were willing to destroy the whole train anyway so why didn't they do it early on. Who was the mystery lady? Who did she work for? How did he find her? Was the captain involved.? Don't waste you're time trying to figure it out.

You work hard, you play by the rules, you're a good soldier, and you don't deserve it. But the reality is sometimes soldiers end up casualties.Do you want to know what I still remember from "The Commuter"? Well, actually it's not that much anymore. It's that kind of movie. Only the opening scene where you see Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson) performing his recurring morning ritual. From getting up to the ride to the metro station with his wife. A unique piece of film? Or is it a copy of the opening scene from "Rebirth" where you see the protagonist performing his daily morning activities as well? A way to demonstrate the daily grind of working people. Only Michael's daily pattern is being discontinued in a rather harsh way when he's being fired at work, where he has been selling life insurances for over 10 years, at the age of 60. And after that, there's this unknown beautiful woman (Vera Farmiga) who makes a hypothetical proposal. He has to take a bag from another traveler on the metro in order to protect himself and his family from a financial catastrophe. Sounds simple but essentially it's a task that should not be underestimated.It seems as though Neeson got a patent on this type of film where he has to work against the clock to complete a task, commissioned by unscrupulous criminals. And time and again it is his family that is also threatened. "The Commuter" is a bit "Non-Stop" and a cross-section of all the "Taken" episodes. And this time it takes place on a train. But to be honest, at a certain moment I thought it was enormously exaggerated and implausible. For a movie night where you can turn off your brains for a while, such that they can enjoy a well-deserved rest, and you can gorge on homemade popcorn, this film isn't that awful. But dear Mr. Neeson. Isn't it time to take a different road and diversify your work a bit? Don't be tempted always to play in the same kind of movies with just a different environment and set-up? After all, you aren't getting any younger. Right?

Im so sick of these types of cookie cutter action movies and Im equally sick of seeing Liam Neeson i them. He is no longer believable in them. Not too many men of any age can have that many fist fights where not only are you getting pummeled in hand to hand fighting, but also having your head rammed into metal and through glass. HIs character is 60 for pete's sake. And on top of that there was some computerization tweeks in the scenes which made them even less real or believable. I didnt have a problem with story or the holes in the plot. It is silly to think that they would hire a stranger to kill this witness but had someone push the fellow commuter into the path of a bus in broad daylight but I didnt think about that until later when all of the pieces started coming together. And the ending?? More ridiculousness!! I better stop here before I start removing stars!