2018 · action · thriller · mystery
The Commuter
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra1h 44m2018
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
Our read: The Commuter (2018) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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