Had this Taken on a Train redux a good shake more intelligence and a portion less
generic action hero fisticuffs, casting Neeson as down - on - his - luck ex-cop turned insurance - hawking family man Michael MacCauley would make perfect sense.
The point is, Wikus is a man, not an
action hero, and unlike some recent examples, he earns his badass moments because we know how fucking angry and afraid he is, and how much he just wants to get away... it turns an otherwise
generic action moment into a display of singular courage.