With their work on 2011's
Unknown, 2014's
Non-Stop and 2015's
Run All Night, Liam Nesson and director Jaume Collet-Saura have quietly solidified themselves as a force in the world of high-concept B-movies. This cinematic power couple has re-teamed after a brief time apart to work on other projects (Nesson starred in the Martin Scorsese-directed historical drama
Silence while Collet-Saura helmed shark survival thriller
The Shallows) with the train-set action thriller
The Commuter. This admirably ludicrous film about a cop-turned-insurance salesman (Nesson) that gets lured into helping some bad people identify a witness that's aboard his commuter train back to the suburbs who has crucial information about the mysterious death of a city councilman that was about to blow the whistle on the evildoings of some powerful people in New York City before he or she meets with the federal authorities at a train station that's located at the end of the route isn't quite as fun or tense as
Non-Stop, which bears a pretty strong resemblance to this in both plot development and setting, but it's still a pretty engaging ride that offers up a serviceable amount of pulpy thrills. Collet-Saura keeps this twist-heavy whodunit story moving at a nice pace while Nesson's hard-nosed charisma maximizes the effectiveness of the script's treasure trove of sensible absurdity. I'm looking forward to this duo's next collaboration in a few years time where a 70-year old Nesson kicks ass and foils convoluted criminal schemes aboard a cruise ship.
Grade: B
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