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2018 activity-thriller film

The Commuter
The Commuter film poster.jpg

Theatrical release affiche

Directed past Jaume Collet-Serra
Screenplay by
  • Byron Willinger
  • Philip de Blasi
  • Ryan Engle
Story by
  • Byron Willinger
  • Philip de Blasi
Produced past
  • Andrew Rona
  • Alex Heineman
Starring
  • Liam Neeson
  • Vera Farmiga
  • Patrick Wilson
  • Jonathan Banks
  • Sam Neill
Cinematography Paul Cameron
Edited by Nicolas de Toth
Music past Roque Baños

Production
companies

  • StudioCanal
  • The Pic Company
  • Ombra Films
Distributed past
  • StudioCanal
    (Britain, France, Germany, Commonwealth of australia and New Zealand) [1]
  • Lionsgate
    (United States)

Release dates

  • Jan viii, 2018 (2018-01-08) (New York City)
  • January 12, 2018 (2018-01-12) (United States)
  • Jan 19, 2018 (2018-01-19) (U.k.)
  • January 24, 2018 (2018-01-24) (French republic)

Running time

105 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United States
  • U.k.
  • France[3] [four]
Linguistic communication English
Budget $30 million[5]
Box part $119.nine million[i]

The Commuter is a 2018 American activeness thriller film directed past Jaume Collet-Serra and written past Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle. The flick stars Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, and Sam Neill. Information technology follows a man who is unwittingly recruited into a murder conspiracy after meeting a mysterious adult female while on his daily train commute.

The motion picture premiered in New York City on Jan 8, 2018, and was theatrically released in the U.s.a. on January 12, 2018, by Lionsgate, and on January 19, 2018 in the U.k. past StudioCanal; it had a select IMAX release. The flick grossed $119 meg worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, who called it similar to Neeson and Collet-Serra'due south previous moving-picture show, Not-Stop, only praised Neeson'southward performance and the genre thrills.

Plot [edit]

Michael MacCauley, an NYPD officeholder turned insurance agent, takes the same daily railroad train commute on the Hudson Line from Tarrytown to Grand Central Terminal. He is abruptly laid off from his job, endangering his family'due south financial security. Waiting to reveal his dismissal to his married woman and son, he instead confides in Murphy, his ex-partner all the same on the police force. On the train home, Michael meets a mysterious married adult female, Joanna, who proposes a "hypothetical" situation: she asks him to locate "Prynne," the alias of an unknown rider who Joanna claims has a stolen item. Joanna tells Michael that he will detect $25,000 in the bath and exist paid a farther $75,000 when his task is done. Alluding to Michael being a quondam cop, she departs, and he finds the $25,000.

Michael attempts to get out the train with the money, only is stopped past a young teenager with an envelope containing his wife's wedding ceremony ring, which he tells him is a alert. Unable to reach his wife by phone, he discreetly approaches boyfriend commuter Walt, writing a note on his newspaper to contact the police. Michael leaves Potato a voicemail describing the situation, and receives a call from Joanna threatening him and his family. She tells him the railroad train is rigged with hidden cameras, and to look outside, where he sees Walt pushed in front of a moving bus and killed. Joanna points Michael to a GPS tracker in his jacket to plant on Prynne.

Michael leads a conductor to announce he plans to search a adult female'due south bag. A man immediately leaves the car and Michael follows, but the man attacks him, and Michael plants the tracker on him. Murphy calls back and explains that Prynne is a primal witness in the supposed suicide of metropolis official Enrique Mendez, leading Michael to realize that Prynne will be killed and that Michael is beingness gear up. In a deserted wagon, Michael discovers the body of the human he planted the tracker on, and a badge revealing he was an FBI agent. Joanna calls, chastising Michael for marking the incorrect person and alarm that another rider reported his suspicious activities to constabulary, who stop the railroad train to investigate. Michael hides with the corpse underneath the railroad vehicle, just loses the $25,000.

Sabotaging the railroad train'southward air conditioning, he forces the remaining passengers into the final carriage, and realizes another passenger, Oliver, killed the FBI amanuensis. Oliver reveals that he received the same instructions for $100,000, but with orders to impale Prynne in one case Michael identified him/her. They fight, and Michael throws Oliver out of a window, killing him. "Prynne" is revealed to exist a 16-year-erstwhile girl named Sofia, who is holding incriminating information on powerful people; the agent was escorting her to witness protection at the train'due south last stop. Sofia reveals that Enrique, her cousin, was murdered by police force officers.

Joanna calls to force Michael to kill Sofia for the sake of his family, but he refuses, and Joanna detonates explosives to derail the train and kill everyone aboard. Michael saves the passengers past unhooking the last carriage at a curve in the tracks, but a usher, Sam, is killed. Michael instructs the passengers to block the railroad vehicle windows with wet newspapers, before a massive police strength arrives. Assuming that Michael is belongings the railroad train earnest, regime send Murphy to negotiate with him. Inbound the railroad vehicle, Murphy unknowingly reveals himself every bit the rogue cop who killed Enrique, and he and Michael fight hand-to-paw. Michael removes Tater's electronic ID tag, which identifies him every bit a "friendly" to the police snipers' thermal vision, resulting in Murphy being mistaken for Michael and shot dead.

Sofia tells the FBI what she knows, and Michael is exonerated by the other passengers while the FBI rescues his family. His quondam captain admits that Potato and other decadent officers had been under investigation, and offers Michael his task back. Michael reveals that he kept the incriminating hard drive Sofia gave him. Some time later, Joanna is on a train back from Chicago when Michael confronts her, showing her his detective's badge and preparing to arrest her.

Bandage [edit]

  • Liam Neeson as Michael MacCauley
  • Vera Farmiga equally Joanna
  • Patrick Wilson as Det. Lt. Alex Murphy
  • Jonathan Banks equally Walt
  • Sam Neill as Captain David Hawthorne
  • Elizabeth McGovern as Karen MacCauley
  • Killian Scott as FBI Amanuensis Dylan
  • Shazad Latif as Vince
  • Andy Nyman equally Tony
  • Clara Lago as Eva
  • Roland Møller as Jackson
  • Florence Pugh every bit Gwen
  • Edward Bluemel every bit Gwen'south Boyfriend
  • Dean-Charles Chapman every bit Danny MacCauley
  • Ella-Rae Smith equally Sofia
  • Nila Aalia equally Sherri
  • Kobna Holdbrook-Smith every bit Oliver
  • Colin McFarlane as Conductor Sam
  • Adam Nagaitis every bit Conductor Jimmy
  • John Alastair as Officeholder O'Neill
  • Kingsley Ben-Adir equally Special Agent Garcia
  • Damson Idris equally Special Agent Denys
  • Ben Caplan as Frank
  • Letitia Wright every bit Jules Skateboarder
  • Pat Kiernan as himself

Product [edit]

Development [edit]

In January 2010, Olatunde Osunsanmi boarded the action-thriller pic as managing director for the product company Gold Circle Films, with a screenplay written past Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi.[half-dozen] More than a yr later, in Baronial 2011, Julian Jarrold was reported to be directing the film instead.[7] In January 2016, Jaume Collet-Serra closed a bargain to straight the film, marking his 4th collaboration with Neeson,[8] and also executive produced through Ombra Films, with partner Juan Sola. The film was produced by StudioCanal and The Film Company.[9]

Casting [edit]

In September 2015, it was appear that Liam Neeson would star in the film.[ten] In June 2016, Vera Farmiga joined, in a role described equally "a mysterious woman who boards a commuter train and proposes an enticing opportunity to Neeson's character, one that has dire circumstances if he accepts."[11] The project marks the second working collaboration between Farmiga and Collet-Serra, later on 2009's psychological thriller Orphan.[12] On July 13, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, and Jonathan Banks were added to the principal cast,[13] and in August 2016, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith joined in an undisclosed part.[14] The same month, Patrick Wilson joined the cast as a trusted friend of Neeson'due south character.[15]

Filming [edit]

Principal photography began on July 25, 2016, at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, and continued in New York City.[13] [xvi] [17] Neeson and McGovern were spotted on the set of the film at Worplesdon railway station in Surrey on September eighteen, 2016.[18]

Music [edit]

In May 2017, information technology was reported that Roque Baños would etch the movie's score.[19] Varèse Sarabande released the soundtrack album digitally in January 2018, with a physical release post-obit on Feb nine, 2018.[20]

All music composed past Roque Baños.

The Commuter (Original Motility Picture Soundtrack)
No. Title Length
i. "A Commuter's Trip" 5:03
two. "Back Domicile Down" 4:35
3. "One Trivial Thing" 3:18
four. "They Are Watching You" 2:54
five. "Murdered for Help" four:11
half dozen. "Zone 7 Tickets" 4:22
7. "A Suspicious Human being" 2:03
8. "The Seek Starts" 3:46
9. "A Cute Family" 4:18
x. "Moving Vagons" 4:35
eleven. "Exercise Not Stop the Train" 4:03
12. "Finding the Witness" 4:33
xiii. "The Railroad train Wreck" 4:37
14. "I Won't Let Them Injure You" ix:04
15. "Who Is Prynne?" five:43
16. "The End of the Line" 5:01
Total length: 72:00

Release [edit]

In November 2015, Lionsgate pre-bought the domestic distribution rights to the picture show, in a deal with StudioCanal.[21] The Driver was originally scheduled for release in the The states on Oct thirteen, 2017,[xiii] and was pushed back to January 12, 2018.[22] The film was set for release in the United kingdom on October 20, 2017 by StudioCanal,[23] and was also pushed back to January 19, 2018, in accordance with the U.S. rescheduling. The picture show had a limited IMAX release.[24]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

The Driver grossed $36.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $83.half dozen million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $119.9 million.[1]

In the U.s.a. and Canada, The Commuter was released alongside the openings of Proud Mary and Paddington two, and the wide expansion of The Post, and was projected to gross $12–xiv million from ii,892 theaters in its opening weekend.[25] It made $four.five million on its offset day and $thirteen.7 million over the weekend, on par with previous Neeson-Collet-Serra collaborations, finishing third at the box part behind holdover Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and The Post.[26] It made $half dozen.6 million in its second weekend, dropping 51.8% and finishing seventh.[27]

Internationally, the flick debuted at number two in Federal republic of germany with $2.six 1000000.[26] It went on to gross a full of $6.7 million in the country, the biggest market outside the U.s.a., likewise every bit $5.half-dozen 1000000 in the Great britain, $5.0 one thousand thousand in French republic and $2.6 one thousand thousand in Australia.[5]

Critical response [edit]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 56% based on 214 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of five.4/ten. The site's critics consensus reads, "The Commuter 'due south cast is better than its workmanlike script – which helps brand this reasonably diverting Liam Neeson action thriller worth the toll of a matinee ticket or rental, if not a full-price ticket."[28] Metacritic assigned the motion picture a weighted average score of 56 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[29] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F calibration.[26] Most fans rated the film higher than critics, with many of them praising the cast performances, the mystery elements, and the suspense.

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External links [edit]

  • The Driver at IMDb
  • The Driver at Box Role Mojo
  • The Commuter at Rotten Tomatoes

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