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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 413780" data-attributes="member: 23">The Commuter (2018)

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One of my last minute, &quot;click in without any foreknowledge&quot; picks. I hadn&#039;t heard of this film until two minutes before I started watching, and as I began watching I didn&#039;t even know what genre this film was, much less the premise. It&#039;s a treat to be in the same position as the characters, not having a clue which way this story was going to go.

Just in case someone else wants the same experience, I won&#039;t say much about the story itself, other than to say it&#039;s nicely done. The performances are strong and with each stroke the writing convincingly paints the protagonist into a corner from which it&#039;s increasingly impossible to escape. It&#039;s fantastically tense, helped by the initial build-up which realistically captured the feeling of doing this everyday thing before it turns into a nightmare.

If the film has one failing, I felt a number of the action scenes could have been stronger, and some of the effects looked a little too obviously computer generated (I put this down to budget, but at $30m it cost more to make than I&#039;d supposed), but the performances more than make up for any shortcomings here.

Reading up on it afterwards, I saw this was Liam Neeson&#039;s third collaboration with this director, and I immediately added one of their earlier films to my watchlist.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 413780, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Commuter[/SIZE][/B] (2018) [IMG width="605px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fkeeping-it-reel.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F01%2Fcommuterposter2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=d69787b4e081c7372dce32934e426706428728925ee0fc9a357c678653b236d4&ipo=images[/IMG] One of my last minute, "click in without any foreknowledge" picks. I hadn't heard of this film until two minutes before I started watching, and as I began watching I didn't even know what genre this film was, much less the premise. It's a treat to be in the same position as the characters, not having a clue which way this story was going to go. Just in case someone else wants the same experience, I won't say much about the story itself, other than to say it's nicely done. The performances are strong and with each stroke the writing convincingly paints the protagonist into a corner from which it's increasingly impossible to escape. It's fantastically tense, helped by the initial build-up which realistically captured the feeling of doing this everyday thing before it turns into a nightmare. If the film has one failing, I felt a number of the action scenes could have been stronger, and some of the effects looked a little too obviously computer generated (I put this down to budget, but at $30m it cost more to make than I'd supposed), but the performances more than make up for any shortcomings here. Reading up on it afterwards, I saw this was Liam Neeson's third collaboration with this director, and I immediately added one of their earlier films to my watchlist.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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