Non-Stop ain't nuthin' fancy, just a good old b-movie thriller.

And gosh, don't I miss them b-movie thrillers - - the 80's and 90's were awash in 'em, and I was in hog heaven!

Non-Stop took me all the way to my destination: Entertainmentown, USA!!!


12 out of 5.

of course

QFT - - before Chippy deletes it once all the good reviews start filling the thread.

I hope it gets good reviews.

It is not going to haunt audiences' dreams for years to come, but, in the moment, Non-Stop is an entertaining and well-crafted action suspense film which sets an Agatha Christie style mystery in a London-bound airplane soaring over the Atlantic. An unknown foe claims there will be another death on the plane every 20 minutes if he or she is not paid 150 million dollars, and it falls to a single in-over-his-head air marshal to save the red-eye flight.

Once again using his six-foot-four frame and deep voice to portray an experienced, yet exhausted hero, the type of role which has turned him into an improbable action draw in recent years, Liam Neeson can obviously deliver this type of performance in his sleep and with both hands tied behind him, from an opening scene which finds our faded protagonist lacing his coffee with liquor (a recognizable sign of an individual requiring redemption by fire) to the eventual fist- and gunfights. This is now his comfort zone. Still, though, he anchors the old-fashioned genre film well with his authentic Irish grit, and he is lent solid aid by a group of character actors and television stars. The limited, no-escape space of the airplane, crowded and tight and turbulent, generates a significant amount of atmosphere and suspense. The sole major flaw is a predictable one: the first 90 percent of the film, with its mounting-dread blend of suspicious sideways glances and abrupt confrontations, is far superior to the pat resolutions of the final ten. The third-act revelations and ultimatums are not heinous, just unspectacular, eliciting a resigned nod rather than a gasp.

B

Very well-done thriller throughout, until the ending drags it down A LOT. Retarded resolution.

I am also not a fan of how films such as this tend to end and have since at least the 1980s. As in the very end, not even the plot twists. The final minute in which the main character goes from person to person, everyone smiling and expressing relief, until he reaches the female lead. "Say, let's get out of here!"/"Can I buy ya dinner, babe?"/etc.

They need to find a way to end the stories with more gravity and grit. Lace the triumph with a hint of the somber. Study the way Michael Mann ends his crime movies.

I wasn't bored at all, though I wish the reveal near the end was more surprising and less "uh sure ok".

A brisk, engaging thriller that manages to build tension throughout. The final act is unbelievably preposterous, but who really cares? It delivers what it aims to do well. B

That was one nice little action thriller. Sure some parts were silly and so were the villain's motives, but the tension was there all along.

7.5/10

SPOILERS

Eh, I was bored for too much of the film. The twist was dumb. 3000 PEOPLE DIED THAT DAY! They really couldn't come up with anything better than 9/11?

It was still worth it for the three action scenes though.

I really enjoyed the flick. Twas entertained.

7/10 ( B )

It's a really nice "first 2 months of the year" B thriller that thankfully doesn't go for a more outrageous twist, but let's face it, this film's success is all about ponying up for Neeson and Moore.

I really enjoyed it. I was entertaining throughout the entire thing. One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is how well made the movie actually is. It looked really nice. The performances are very good as well. It wasn't anything great and the ending was ridiculous, but I was so entertained I didn't really care.

7/10

Spoilers

When the first 20 minutes have passed and you see that it's Neeson who just killed someone..... you're like:

Totally inspired lunacy. Doubt it will hold up to a second viewing but I had a blast with it.

awesome

I know! I kind of would have rather liked an ending where it was happening in his mind and he was the one actually doing it. The end is a little lame, but its solid throughout. Neeson and the rest are all good, but I would rate this as Neeson's worst action thriller yet. Doesn't really have a rewatchability for me.

Taken- A+
The Grey- A
Unkown- B+
Taken 2- B+
Non-Stop- B

Though it obviously performed as one in a financial sense, I do not consider The Grey as one of Neeson's disposable post-Taken action vehicles. It has a depth and a grit foreign to the others, however enjoyable.

I agree, but I'd still put it in the Neeson as an action hero post Taken film.

Non-Stop

I really enjoyed this. It’s a great mystery, set on a plane, with Liam Neeson as a drunk who basically kicks people’s asses. Don’t worry, there’s more depth to it than that. Despite then trying to make you think Neeson is the villain, not for any moment do you believe it, but probably your first suspicion of who the enemy is (you’ll have many throughout the film) will be the villain at the end – it’s just too obvious. But the good thing about Non-Stop is that it consistently makes you double-guess your initial suspicion, by which at half-time, you’re putting money on about 5 or 6 different characters.

Julianne Moore was fantastic, and the script was also pretty decent. I laughed a few times during the film when he started talking about his daughter (I thought “Oh no, it’s Taken all over again”). It’s a good mystery thriller. The ending is a little abrupt, and I thought that the forced and tacked-on romance between Julianne Moore and Neeson was unneeded.

B+

[b]B[ /b]

This movie was good, liam still got it.

It was a perfect set up for the rest of the movie. You never FULLY trust him, giving the mystery of who the bad guy is weight right up until we find out.

I really enjoyed this. B+

I, too, would have liked Neeson to have been the one doing it in his mind or maybe Moore controlling him or something.


It fell apart from the reveal, there was shoddy CGI, complete implausibility, generic ending.

I would say besides Taken, which though was one of the most fun experiences I've had watching a film doesn't hold up as well, the Grey is the only notable film he's done after. Taken 2 had DTV script and action. Unknown was pretty lame being the only feeling I recall about the film.