a5c7b9f00b An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages demanding $150 million into an off-shore account, or someone will die every 20 minutes. Bill Marks, a former cop dealing with his daughter's death by drinking, is now a federal air marshal. While on a flight from New York to London, Marks gets a text telling him that unless 150 million dollars is transferred to an offshore account, someone will die every 20 minutes. Can he find the terrorist in time and save everyone? The film itself is a straight-forward narrative with an intense storyline that keeps your attention from the start to the end. Not one minute of the film was I not drawn in. That alone already won a high rating out of me, because that is what a great movie should do.<br/><br/>I can only think of 2 reasons for which critics give low ratings on this film. One is that although it has some cinematography, it isn't as artsy and as loaded in analytic cinematography, which is what many critics look for. The other is the tagline or the mindset of the villain. What the villain says is true, and although Liam eventually does maintain his hero status and saves the passengers, the logic and mindset of the villain are still strong enough to linger in the viewers' head afterwards. In his late-age reinvention as an action hero, Neeson picks up from where he left in Serra's last film 'Unknown'. Here he is a federal air marshal aboard an aircraft where a passenger is threatening to kill those aboard one by one unless $150 million is wired into his/her account. The premise is interesting, and Non-Stop makes some effort to stretch the tension and to establish Bill (Neeson) as an unstable character – till invariably the invariables catch up. There is only so much action one can pack inside an aircraft – even with made- for-film larger aisles – there are only so many people Bill can haul rather cruelly for questioning, and there are only so many angles you can explore over phone calls and text messages. The 150 people aboard and their back stories could make a better film but Non-Stop is neither interested in it, nor even implies this from its name. Neeson's weather-beaten, frowning grimace is complimented by an irritatingly equanimous Moore, a solemn Muslim doctor who is called upon to redeem his faith, an air hostess who is here, there everywhere – unlike the non-existent Lupita (12 Years a Slave) Nyong'o – and a tangent that embarrassingly literally evokes the air marshal's dead daughter. And just when you think that the saving grace is that the "terrorist" only wants money, the film throws up more million dollar questions. Just the ones with no answers. A nifty lift-off and a tense first hour lead us, disappointingly, to a very bumpy landing. While Neeson and co. do their best, the script just doesn’t deliver where it really matters.
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