The Commuter Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

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6. Liam Neeson's Entertaining Performance

Liam Neeson may be in his mid-60s, but he can still play a kicka** protagonist, and one of the big reasons The Commuter works as well as it does is because the film doesn't shy away from Neeson's age.

His character Michael MacCauley mentions that he's 60 years old within the first 10 minutes of the movie, and the film's numerous fight scenes don't show Neeson effortlessly dispatching men much younger and stronger than himself.

Rather, Neeson gets his a** kicked a lot, and even if he comes out on top, it's usually at the end of a rough and tumble fight, where he's used his experience as an ex-cop to outsmart his adversary.

Neeson doesn't look tired or wishing he was somewhere else like he did in, say, Taken 3, and once again he plays a convincing, likeable everyman hurled into an unassailably insane situation.