Liam Neeson punching people on a train and a delightful bear couldn’t stop the Dwayne Johnson train this weekend at the box office.

“Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle” stayed on top for the second straight week, hauling in $27 million. Again, it doesn’t need repeating how much of a success the film is. Sony‘s rebootquel survived opening in the same frame as “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” and in its third and fourth weeks at the box office, held onto the top spot.

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With “The Commuter,” director Jaume Collet-Serra and his frequent action muse Liam Neeson complete their unofficial “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” trilogy. In 2010, an uneasy taxi crashes into Berlin’s Spree and gives Neeson a bad case of amnesia in the ironically forgettable “Unknown.” In 2014, an alcoholic air marshal, played by Neeson, must stop a mysterious airborne killing spree on a plane in the surprisingly engaging “Non-Stop.” Now, with “The Commuter,” we find ourselves traveling with Neeson on a train, where a recently unemployed ex-cop-turned-insurance salesman gets caught in another murder conspiracy, one where a mysterious woman (Vera Farmiga) provides Neeson with a tantalizing offer that could either save or destroy his fragile family life before the train’s final destination.

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If your resolution for 2018 was to go outside more, maybe read the book that’s gathered dust on your nightstand, or pick up a hobby that doesn’t involve going to the movies, you’re in luck because unless you’re playing catch up, we’ve reached our yearly, momentary dry spell. While there are a few weeks in February that already look like they’ll be offering exclusively garbage, at least it will also have “Black Panther” and “Annihilation” to hold the tides.

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It’s the time of year when we’re all eating up prestige pictures, and getting healthy on the best that cinema has to offer. But sometimes you just want to dive face first into a movie that’s high on calories and low on nutrition, so thank god for “The Commuter.”

Liam Neeson is coming to punch people — again — this time on a train, in a movie where he gruffly demands, “Stop this train now!” My ticket is fucking sold.

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Liam Neeson, cinematically speaking, is just trying to live his life when, lately, things have been getting very real. Three “Taken” movies, that one where he was supposed to fight wolves but mostly didn’t, that other one where he ran all night, that time he stopped airplane trouble, and that other time Common was an assassin — dude can’t be chill for five minutes without something going wrong.

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“They’re still throwing serious money at me to do [action movies]. I’m like: ‘Guy’s I’m sixty-f******-five.’ Audiences are eventually going to go: ‘Come on,’ ” Liam Neeson recently said about his late-career resurgence as a man with a very special set of skills. Whether or not that means he’s going to punch his ticket on action flicks remains to be seen, he’s got at least one more coming with “The Commuter.”

Co-starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, and directed by Neeson’s go-to action dude Jaume Collet-Serra (“Unknown,” “Non-Stop,” “Run All Night“), this actually plays like “Non-Stop” but on a train, with the story centering around a mild-mannered dude who gets caught up in a criminal’s complex plans.

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So Liam Neeson will be Taking some stuff again, it seems like. Here’s the synopsis for his new movie, “The Commuter,” which seems, as a whole, to be an unnecessary venture:

In this action-packed thriller, Liam Neeson plays an insurance salesman, Michael, on his daily commute home, which quickly becomes anything but routine. After being contacted by a mysterious stranger, Michael is forced to uncover the identity of a hidden passenger on his train before the last stop.

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Jaume Collet-Serra Will Make Liam Neeson Run All Night, Non-Stop, From Unknown Bad Guys In 'The Commuter'

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Liam Neeson Is Taken In By An Unknown, Non-Stop Conspiracy And Has To Run All Night In 'The Commuter'

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