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The Commuter (film)
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The Commuter is a 2018 American-British-French action thriller film about an NYPD officer-turned-insurance agent caught in a murder conspiracy after an encounter with a mysterious woman onboard a train.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra; Produced by Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman; Written by Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle
Lives are on the line
Michael MacCauley
Hey, Goldman Sachs. On behalf of the American middle class, fuck you.
[seeing Joanna reading "The Count of Monte Cristo"] "What makes a man is what he does when the storm comes." Alexandre Dumas. Read that one a few years back. It's got a hell of an ending. This seat taken? The 6:20 every morning to Chicago. The 5:30 home. You know, I never took your for a commuter.
[repeated line] What's in the bag?
Joanna
What if someone asked you to do one little thing but would affect another passenger on this train? Would you do it?
[on the phone to Michael] You had your chance, now EVERYONE dies!
Dialogue
Sofia: Ricky was a city planner, and some nights he would have to work late, so I-I would go to his office to finish my homework. I was waiting for Ricky by the elevator when these two men show up. I didn't see their faces, but they were looking for Ricky. I hid 'cause I didn't wanna get him in trouble. But they wanted something from him. Then all of them start yelling, and I hear this noise. They were hurting him. I could hear him screaming. And he tells them that he doesn't have it, that it's back at his place.
Michael MacCauley: You took it.
Sofia: Of course I took it. I wanted to help. And then I look through the doorway and I see this guy. He's holding Ricky, and he hits him, and he says something about being noble.
Michael MacCauley: Noble?
Sofia: He says that doing the right thing will get you killed, and that there's no such thing as being noble. And then, they just... I didn't... I didn't know what to do. I...
Michael MacCauley: I know.
Sofia: I just took it, and... and I ran.
Michael MacCauley: Why didn't you call the police?
Sofia: I couldn't call the police. The men who killed him were cops.
Alex Murphy: Mike, I get it. You wanna do the noble thing here. But I got news for you. There ain't no such thing as noble.
Michael MacCauley: [glancing at Prynne] It was you.
Alex Murphy: What are you talking about?
Michael MacCauley: You called me. You knew about the witness. You... you knew what they saw.
Alex Murphy: Yeah, I told you what happened.
Michael MacCauley: It was a cop who killed him. You set me up.
Cast
Liam Neeson as Michael MacCauley
Vera Farmiga as Joanna
Patrick Wilson as Det. Lt. Alex Murphy
Jonathan Banks as Walt
Sam Neill as Captain David Hawthorne
Elizabeth McGovern as Karen MacCauley
Killian Scott as FBI Agent Dylan
Shazad Latif as Vince
Andy Nyman as Tony
Clara Lago as Eva
Roland Møller as Jackson
Florence Pugh as Gwen
Edward Bluemel as Gwen's Boyfriend
Dean-Charles Chapman as Danny MacCauley
Ella-Rae Smith as Sofia
Nila Aalia as Sherri
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Oliver
Colin McFarlane as Conductor Sam
Adam Nagaitis as Conductor Jimmy
John Alastair as Officer O'Neill
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Special Agent Garcia
Damson Idris as Special Agent Denys
Ben Caplan as Frank
Letitia Wright as Jules Skateboarder
Pat Kiernan as Himself
External links
1590153 The Commuter
Category:2018 films
Category:2010s American films
Category:2010s British films
Category:2010s French films
Category:American action films
Category:Mystery films
Category:Action thriller films
Category:Films set on trains
Category:Films set in New York City