‘The Commuter’ can’t stay on the tracks with lazy script, bad effects

Posted on January 19, 2018

By MARK VIOLA

Ever since 2008’s “Taken,” actor Liam Neeson has become the go-to-guy for films about an older man facing a dangerous situation, but who ultimately has the skills to deal with it. Since then he’s starred in such films as “The Next Three Days,” “Unknown,” “Run All Night” and “Non-Stop,” not to mention “Taken 2” and “3.”

“Non-Stop” was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who reunites with Neeson for his latest role as the man with the right skills in “The Commuter.” It is an entirely serviceable thriller — for January at least — but one that ultimately treads extremely familiar ground and suffers from a lazy script and substandard production values.

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