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The familiar faces of fellow commuters, some of whom he’s ridden with for years, take on a sinister cast. He’s in a trap he can’t escape, and suddenly everything looks different. Mike is a hapless patsy, but he has also been knocked off his ethical moorings by the prospect of financial ruin. Collet-Serra cultivates a clammy, hallucinatory, Hitchcockian vibe.
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Until the particulars of Joanna’s scheme start to reveal themselves - roughly until the first fight sequence - Mr. His colleagues are played by Patrick Wilson and Sam Neill.) And then, on the hot, crowded ride home, Mike meets a mysterious woman named Joanna (Vera Farmiga) who offers him $100,000 to identify another passenger, another stranger on the train. Mike is abruptly laid off from his job selling insurance, and has a quietly foreboding encounter with colleagues from his previous job, which was with the New York Police Department. The MacCauleys lost a lot in the 2008 financial crisis, and they’ve been struggling to rebuild since then. We know Mike’s happiness will be shattered, and the clouds that gather to darken his day are also, at least at first, pretty interesting. What could have been a sketch of Cheeveresque ennui is instead a brief and lovely survey of contentment. He kisses his wife ( Elizabeth McGovern) and banters with their teenage son (Dean-Charles Chapman).
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Mike, who lives in Tarrytown, N.Y., awakens each day to ride the Metro-North Railroad train down to Manhattan. The opening title sequence, a montage of nearly-identical mornings in the life of Michael MacCauley, is a thing of beauty. Directed by the noted Neesonist auteur Jaume Collet-Serra ( “Unknown,” “Non-Stop,” “Run All Night”), “The Commuter” for a short while promises to be something more than the usual barrage of fistfights, chases and grimaces.