Fly Hard

Rating: 4/10 (21 September 2014)

Well, that was forgettable fun. Liam Neeson as a sort of Gaelic-accented Bruce Willis, forced to hunt down a hijacker on a trans-Atlantic flight.
I don't quite buy Neeson as an action hero. He's too a bit too portly these days, looking much more like he rather solve any problems by sitting down and having a good natter over a pint of Guinness, rather than go gallivanting around like a mad thing.
He does put on a good show in this movie though. After boarding a plane, he starts getting text message threatening the lives of various passengers and crew, and has to gradually eliminate various suspects, often in a rather gung-ho fashion. He's not helped by everyone who should be helping thinking he's off his rocker.
The movie switches from psychological drama to much more of an action film as it nears the end, and the final scenes are well handled and wind up events well.
It a reasonably good action flick. Not a lot of depth to it, but then there's not supposed to be.