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Insurance salesman Michael is on his daily commute home, which quickly becomes anything but routine. After being contacted by a mysterious stranger, Michael is forced to uncover the identity of a hidden passenger on the train before the last stop. As he works against the clock to solve the puzzle, he realizes a deadly plan is unfolding, and he is unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that carries life and death stakes for everyone on the train.

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Rated PG-13 for some intense action/violence, and language.

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Insurance salesman Michael is on his daily commute home, which quickly becomes anything but routine. After being contacted by a mysterious stranger, Michael is forced to uncover the identity of a hidden passenger on the train before the last stop.

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A fairly exciting and tension-filled romp through a diverse cast of mostly unknown actors, all of whom get to shine to varying degrees. Fresh score. The Commuter is much less concerned with staging brawls than it is with trying to spin a taut, ticking time bomb thriller, and for the most part it's quite successful.

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Principal photography began on July 25, 2016, at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, and continued in New York City. Neeson and McGovern were spotted on the set of the film at Worplesdon railway station in Surrey on September 18, 2016.

On his daily train commute, an insurance salesman gets railroaded into accepting a suspiciously lucrative offer from a mysterious fellow passenger. Watch all you want. Using his very particular set of skills, Liam Neeson collaborates for the fourth time with director Jaume Collet-Serra.

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Collet-Serra tells CineMovie THE COMMUTER is a sequel in spirit only. After their experience on NON-STOP, Neeson and the director talked about replicating the "whodunit" thriller and they joked it would be on a train. Their idea came to fruition. THE COMMUTER is now playing in movie theatres.

Plot. Two estranged former friends reconnect at the funeral of a mutual friend, and decide to exact revenge on their dead friend's widower for the harm he caused to them decades earlier.

It doesn't matter that, by the end, most viewers would be hard pressed to pass a quiz about the specifics of the story. Nor should it especially concern us that this movie is very close to a commuter-train remake of Neeson's “Non-Stop” (2014), set on an airplane.