The Commuter Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

Downs...

4. The Hilariously Awful CGI

As was painfully apparent from the film's trailers, The Commuter doesn't exactly boast cutting-edge visual effects, which was clearly the major casualty of the movie's svelte $30 million budget.

From the fact that much of the film's train sequences were clearly shot on a green-screen, with the background unconvincingly composited in, to a major, outlandish set-piece later in the film, the visual effects never look anything more than laughably cheap and low-rent.

At least the poor effects are less of an issue in an unapologetic B-movie like this, but you'll probably still end up wincing at the howlingly goofy sequence featured in the trailers, where a digital Neeson awkwardly leaps from one flaming train carriage to the next. Was anything in this shot practical? Probably not.