People are dying on a transatlantic flight and it won’t stop unless the people responsible are paid $150 million. Don’t worry though, Liam Neeson is on-board. Our Non-Stop review is right after the jump.
Ever since Taken hit our screens, Liam Neeson has become one of the world’s leading men for action films, showing that even a 61-year old Irishman can show the young guns how it’s done. Yes, you read that right – Neeson is 61, which is a shock in itself.
In Non-Stop, Neeson plays Bill Marks – an alcoholic Air Marshall who is put to the test after he receives a text message on a secure network informing him that a passenger on his flight will die every twenty minutes unless a ransom is paid of $150 million. Having seen many similar scenarios in movies, we know that Neeson won’t go down without a fight.
Non-Stop is like a Die Hard meets Flightplan if Agatha Christie wrote it. Like I stated above, we have seen it before, but the whodunit carries enough suspense to keep you interested throughout. 
One problem we did have is, we guessed who the culprit was pretty early on, but the film is intelligent enough to make you second guess yourself.
Liam is joined by Juilanne Moore as a female passenger who can sometimes look and act a bit shady. Oscar winner (for 12 Years a Slave) Lupita Nyong’o also features as a flight attendant. Jaume Collet-Serra is the director, who re-joins with Neeson after their collaboration on the film Unknown. Collet-Serra is also the man responsible for the movie Orphan.
One thing I did like about Non-Stop is the use of tension as well as the twists and turns. The movie focuses on control and who is actually in control of the situation the passengers, crew and Bill is forced into.
Overall Thoughts
Non-Stop is a decent action thriller reminiscent of a modernised ‘Then There Was One’ by Agatha Christie, but on a plane. Neeson convinces again as an action hero.
