Cabin pressure: Grim & Stoic Neeson rises above the convoluted generic genre

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2014)

NON-STOP (2014) **1/2 Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery, Nate Parker, Corey Stoll, Lupita Nyong'o, Linus Roache, Jason Butler Harner, Shea Wingham, Anson Mouunt. Fairly entertaining yet strained suspense auctioneer with alcoholic federal air marshal Neeson (ever grim and stoic) who must find out who is trying to cause danger to the flight he's aboard with the clock ticking and tension mounting to a froth. While Neeson is always formidable and vulnerable in his latest anti-hero turn, the convoluted screenplay by John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach and Ryan Engle leaves a lot to be desired in spite of the claustrophobic direction by Jaume Collet-Serra into white-knuckling cabin pressure.