The Commuter Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

1. The Big Reveal Is Insanely Obvious

The Commuter Liam Neeson
Lionsgate

No spoilers here of course, but it won't surprise anyone that The Commuter is full of nutty twists and turns, the most pivotal of which is unfortunately extremely obvious to anyone who is really paying attention to what's going on.

It doesn't help that the trailers showed a few shots which will make it easier for audiences to piece together what's going to happen, and while the nature of the reveal itself is fine, the fact it lacks the shock value viewers will want from B-movie material like this is a damn shame.

All these things considered, though, The Commuter is certainly more fun than not. Here's everything that works...

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