Monday, March 24, 2014

'Non-Stop', the Movie

Movie Poster for 'Non-Stop'
The action-thriller 'Non-Stop' is basically a vehicle for Liam Neeson to display his regular guy macho as an air marshall on a non-stop flight from the U.S. to London.

In addition to Neeson, the wonderful cast includes Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Linus Roache, Lupita Nyong'o, and numerous others as passenger and crew aboard the ill-fated flight.

The plot is full of more holes and loose ends than a hookers fishnets.  In order to sustain the suspense, nearly every character becomes a suspect at some point.  Much of the story is moved along by cell-phone messages, making everyone on the plane with a cell phone suspect.  Only the 8-year-old child travelling alone is spared -- she's a different plot device.

If you're looking for moment-to-moment thrills with little regard for coherence or if you're a die hard Liam Neeson fan or if you're looking for new hypotheses for the disappearance of Malaysian Air Flight 370 you might be interested.  All others are duly warned.

1 comment:

  1. I thought the movie was quite good and interesting for the first-half, but plot complications and red-herrings put the film into a nosedive after that. It ended up a mess, but it did have a good startt.

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