Great But Fails At The Conclusion

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2015)

Non-Stop is a mystery action thriller that has its events occurs 40,000 feet above inside an airplane. It stars Liam Neeson as Bill Marks,a U.S. Federal Air Marshall who was set up to do an impossible task of inside an airplane,together with a brilliant supporting cast led by recent Oscar winner Julianne Moore as well as Michelle Dockery, Lupita Nyong'o and Scoot McNairy.
Bill Marks is an alcoholic Federal Marshal that was enrolled in the Air Marshall after he was discharged from the New York City Police Department.On a Boeing 767 non-stop flight from New York to London, he receives text messages on his secure phone stating that someone on the plane will die every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into a specific bank account.
Just like its title,Non-Stop provided non-stop suspense in the first 80 minutes.No question that Liam Neeson is solid as Bill Marks,a man who intends to redeem himself in the current situation that he is in.The action was also intense as Marks try to solve the mystery of the man who assigns him of doing the impossible tasks and tries to locate his identity among the passengers.Too bad that the conclusion somewhat becomes implausible and unrealistic as the action sequence was simply cheesy especially when Marks killed the killer with the help of the co-pilot. If the conclusion was handled better by the writers,it could have been one of the best action thrillers of the year.