Wow, this movie is AMAZING

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2015)

SPOILERS!!! This is basically "speed" but in the air. What I absolutely love the most about this movie is how Liam Neeson consistently man handles EVERYONE he comes in contact with on the plane. When he searches passengers to discover the killer and comes up with an INKLING that someone MIGHT be the bad guy, he immediately grabs them and starts breaking things (mainly body parts). Now admittedly, he's a little stressed, as we all are on long flights, but this level of brutality is just so unnecessary. I would have filed a police brutality report or at the least written a strongly worded letter to his supervisor once the flight was over. I mean, is this indicative of how he handles arrests or interrogations all the time? Thanks for saving the plane Liam, but you need to schedule an appointment with Bob in HR asap. Also, just on an efficiency note, Liam, you have a gun, you don't need to break everyone's nose in hand to hand combat, it seems really exhausting. Also, his name is Bill in this movie, henceforth I will call him Bill, as the internet does not recognize "Liam" as a properly spelled word as I write this review. Side note- there is a young girl on the flight (who I assume is supposed to tie into the background story of Bill who lost his daughter to cancer at a young age). Literally everyone on this flight throughout the movie, treats this kid like she's got aspergers. She's 7, she's a little nervous about the flight, not mentally disabled. Calm down flight attendants, we got bigger fish to fry in this movie. Speaking of Bill's dead daughter, the craziest scene in the movie (for me) was when Bill gave this long heartfelt monologue about his dead daughter and his inability to deal with her death that has impacted his life. This scene is crazy because 30 seconds before he gives it he discovers a BOMB in the bathroom which has been activated and is counting down. He is attacked by passengers and only is able to get them to let him go when he tells them about the bomb. So now, the whole plane knows there is an active bomb counting down in the plane and basically everyone has minutes to live. So what do they do? Let's all hang out and let Bill tell us a long story about his dead kid! What??? How about we use this time to discuss a plan not to die and Bill can tell us about his dead daughter at TGIFridays, later tonight? Bill and several passengers create a plan to allow the bomb to detonate at the back of the plane and move all passengers up front. BUT- this plan will only work if they can descend to 8000 feet because that's the point where the air pressure equalizes- remember that, b/c it will come up again. There are awesome fight scenes throughout this film, not to mention the ubiquitous "flying through the air shooting in slow mo when the pilot violently diverts the plane". Brilliant. Did you know this movie has comedy? Well it DOES! Spoiler alert here- There are two passengers who end up being the bad guys, they were working together the whole time and while one of them has a gun pointed at Bill he launches into a monologue to explain why they did it and what they want to gain (as we know all bad people do). Get this- they went through all this trouble and caused this kerfuffle in order to...wait for it...INCREASE AIRPORT SECURITY. Not joking, that's what the plan was the whole time. Now we come to what is hands down my favorite line of the whole movie, and possibly of any movie. I pray to the gods of the movie industry and sweet baby Jesus that Liam either wrote this line or improvised it. The bad guy gets done explaining his diabolical plan and Bill says "You should have handed out pamphlets, much easier." WHAT?? Liam- that is COMEDY GENIUS!! And what makes it even better is that Liam delivers the line the same way he made that threatening speech to the kidnapper in "Taken", it's very tersely said and a little scary. This man is an artist. So more fight scenes happen and the bomb goes off and blows a hole in the plane, stuff is being sucked out of the plane and the whole thing is falling apart. Then we switch to a perspective outside the airplane which shows the plane is right above the ground trying to land on the runway- yes, the plane is like 8 feet off the ground. They touchdown and its a really rough landing, and for whatever reason, (I believe it's because God hates children) a hole is ripped in the side of the plane but only for one seat- the seat the little girl is in. She is immediately in danger of being sucked out of the plane- which makes NO SENSE because they are on the ground- there is NO DIFFERENCE IN AIR PRESSURE HERE!! Think about it, Bill even told us we would basically be fine at 8000 feet earlier in the movie, but now physics don't apply anymore. If you were driving in your car and the door was removed, you wouldn't be struggling to resist being sucked out of the car, dear god, if that was the case no one would EVER buy a convertible! Spoiler- girl is pulled back in by Bill, which is a shame, because they could've made a bold choice there that would have totally changed the direction and feel of the movie, but whatever. 10 out of 10, will watch again.