The Commuter

It's as dull as my usual ride in a usual train going home.

Neeson throwing himself about the train-setting is engaging enough to hold your attention for about an hour. Unfortunately, The Commuter is an hour and fortyfive minutes long.

Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.

This might have worked had "MacCauley" (Liam Neeson) just been an ordinary insurance salesman caught up in some antics on a train. Instead, though, he's a highly trained ex-cop and so any sense of jeopardy there might have been has already fallen down the gap between the coaches. Anyway, rather curi...