Liam Neeson , a tall Irish gentleman known to audiences around the world for his role in Schindler's List.
With a variety of play paths, he "has become a monk halfway through". At the age of 56, he started a ten-year "rescue road" and embarked on the journey of tough guy action movies.
After the "Hurricane Rescue" series and "Air Rescue", Uncle Liam started another "rescue".
However, this movie may be Uncle Liam's last action movie .
While Ready Player One was going strong during the same period, the film shouldn't be completely ignored. This is what I'm going to talk about today...
"Commuter Rescue"
As a regular action suspense film that ostensibly relies on actors to support the scene, "Commuter Rescue" is not only from the dimension of the director and Liam Neeson's many cooperations, but also from its type brothers that have long passed the golden age . The advantages and disadvantages are obvious .
Although the story began to get out of control in the second half, but in the handling of some paragraphs, "Commuter Rescue" has a good degree of recognition, and it will not be killed by a stick.
The most obvious is Macaulay, played by Liam Neeson, who is no longer a special agent with stunts, or an air security officer who directly shows his force, or even a desolate old killer. At 66, he is obviously unable to do it again. He became the "strongest father on earth" who killed all directions for his daughter 10 years ago.
This can actually be seen from the bad action scenes in "Hurricane Rescue 3" that are purely edited and spliced. Uncle Liam and Stallone, who are considered "late bloomers" in action movies, are naturally incomparable, so they will face the problem of "re-transformation" earlier.
Regardless of whether "Commuter Rescue" is really the last action movie in his life as Uncle Liam said (of course, as a fan, I still hope he says the same thing as Jackie Chan), the transformation he needs is in this film It's not radical, but instead finds a balance between suspense and action.
The various jump cuts at the beginning of the film and before Macaulay boarded the train can be said to be quite good, the six o'clock wake up bell and the news broadcast day after day for ten years, all kinds of weather or It is a different emotion, and the joys, sorrows and sorrows follow a fixed line, establishing a typical image of the American middle class . Along with various discussions about the family's economic situation, it further added a bit of anxiety to this regular life.
This anxiety intensified with Macaulay's dismissal, and then transferred this loss and depression to his familiar train. The reason why "Commuter Rescue" gives an excellent setting scene is that in addition to quickly establishing the credibility of the characters, it also skillfully introduces the main place where the story takes place, and brings out different characters on the train through quick editing. His character, the quarrels, arrogance and helplessness that passed by quickly exacerbated the unease and overall anxiety on the train , and merged with Macaulay, who was defeated by life.
The display of American social anxiety here is completely unreminiscent of the next development, and it reflects a unique temperament for such an action movie. Of course, all of this stops at the further demonstration of Macaulay's identity, "a retired police officer" . The familiar scenes instantly impacted the previous characters, and the development of the second half of the film did not escape such a prediction. Assume.
Macaulay is not perfect, whether it's taking the task without thinking for money, to the urge to abscond with money, or even the guilt caused by the death of a friend, all of which are disintegrating the perfect image of the protagonist, compared to the more dangerous tasks. , his life itself has weighed him down. And these details also try to elicit some discussion around the moral dilemma.
Compared with the contradiction between physical fitness and the identity of the killer in "Dark Night", Macaulay of "Commuter Rescue" gave more compromises. This way of handling is easily reminiscent of Jackie Chan's "England" last year. Showdown".
Macaulay looked quite embarrassed in every battle, often starting with being pressed on the ground by his opponent and rubbing it on the ground. Instead of destroying every action scene with fragmented editing, "Commuter Rescue" chose to face this slight fatigue directly. But it was still a desperate fight , and even gave a fairly recognizable long shot. There are two action scenes that can't be said to be fun, but the design is quite bright. There is a section that makes good use of the conditions of the train, which is not bad in terms of the type of action.
"Commuter Rescue" is the fourth collaboration between director Zomi Sheila and Liam Neeson. The film also inherits the director's consistent pursuit of suspenseful settings. Sheila can always pull the audience to the point before the logic unfolds. In an extremely tense atmosphere , even if I don't mention "The Orphan's Resentment" that left a psychological shadow on me, that is, "Shark Beach" and "Air Rescue" in the past two years, they are all playing psychologically in a relatively confined space. game.
After the film entered the main topic, I also saw the director's good skills again, playing with the character's identity, and a ubiquitous "eye" observing Macaulay's every move, forcing Macaulay to enter a state of being full of grass and trees.
Except for himself, Macaulay can't even trust everyone in front of him. Of course, it is far worse than the director's early "Unidentified". "Commuter Rescue" failed to play the concept of identity again while maintaining a strong sense of suspense. to the extreme.
However, in the second half of the film, I gradually began to wear away the goodwill I had accumulated at the beginning.
Macaulay's image as an ordinary citizen has no impact on the subsequent crisis. Even after he retired from the police for ten years, after entering the climax of the film, he gradually moved closer to those of his previous roles, slowly erasing the recognition established before. .
The suspense at the beginning gradually weakened with the escalation of the scene, and later it even made people doubt the rationality of the entire film story , not to mention whether these corrupt police officers have the ability to set up such a huge situation, and have the ability to monitor and place people at any time. The ability to die, just say there is no need for this. Since it's crazy enough to destroy the entire train, what is this bureau for?
If it is really to make Macaulay affordable, then the details of this layout can be said to be quite rough, and there is no contradiction in Alex who can make such a move, let alone Villa. · The mysterious woman played by Farmiga is just a facade and there is no following (refer to Julian Moore in "Air Rescue").
Such an important piece of evidence takes time to resolve by a risky and easily uncontrolled ex-cop, and there is no way to stop Macaulay from doing anything other than the old-fashioned way of threatening his wife and daughter. If the sheriff played by Sam Neill brings a twist at the end, it makes sense, or faced with a retired police officer who has no knowledge of corruption and murder, these so-called "big forces" have once again become only shouting. waste.
Not to mention that anyone who has watched "The Conjuring" can guess who is with whom, let's say that the process of revealing Alex's true identity is completely untenable, without a trace of fear, on the contrary. It seems a little funny. Except for some "supervillain" in superhero comics, who would say the same thing out loud before killing someone, are you really your own Jack Nicholson?
If the word about "noble" was Alex's catchphrase, how could Macaulay, his long-time partner, fail to react when he first heard the witness's description. Moreover, this is an answer that is enough to answer all the suspense. In the film, the process of Macaulay's discovery of the truth is pushed to a "coincidence" , and Macaulay's suspicion is quickly ruled out.
At the end of the movie, all the people in the car suddenly became saints. This is not "Spartacus" but also "Spider-Man 2". A film with realistic anxiety actually ends with the noble perfection of a superhero. At the end , I still can't see the super embarrassing sublimation of the character arc, which is really a pity.
Finally, I would like to ask, if the train derailment and the hostage-taking incident happened, there is still a live broadcast? Do you Western journalists run so fast? ? ?
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