Hi, has anyone who seen this movie found with it any similarities with a cult late 60s classic film "The Incident" (1967) 50 years ago, which's story is also set on a train?
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I've never seen 'The Incident' but this flick bears some similarities to 'Nick of Time.'
shareIt's more or less a remake of another Neeson movie called Nonstop. I rewatched this recently and liked it better than the first time I saw it. But Nonstop is better.
share"The Incident" was more realistic -- a "slice of life" -- about some young toughs taking over a subway car late at night and menacing the passsengers.
Which of course, makes that similar to "The Taking of Pelham 123" (1974) in which professional criminals take over a subway car and its passengers for ransom. That gritty 70's NYC thriller with Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw was remade bigger (but not better) with Denzel Washington and John Travolta in the 00s. And also feels like "The Commuter."
But the poster above me who picked "Nick of Time" as the REAL influence has the winner, as far as I'm concerned. In both films, really evil people choose a "regular guy" at random(except in Nick of Time, its REALLY random) and threaten to kill his family if he doesn't kill somebody for them.
That plot worked both times because you really HATE the villains forcing the regular guy to kill.