“The Commuter” (**1/2 out of four) was a reasonably entertaining Hitchcockian thriller about a businessman (Liam Neeson) on his commute home who is approached by a stranger on a trainer (Vera Farmiga) with a financial offer which he reluctantly accepts but this in turn leads to the endangering of him and his family and everyone else on board. Intriguing and involving at first but story gets progressively more ridiculous, especially in the final third when plot holes really start to show. Neeson is first-rate as usual and holds this together but this cannot measure up to the last collaborations between him and director Jaume Colle-Serra “Run All Night”, “Unknown”, and “Non-Stop” which this often resembles

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