Mystery Action Thriller, with great mystery, small action and cheap thrills.

Rating: 7/10 (4 March 2014)

Liam Neeson has become a very marketable action movie superstar since the hit action thriller Taken. So whenever a movie trailer shows Liam Neeson beating up bad guys, people immediately anticipate its release. Non Stop may seem like a great mystery action thriller, but overall it's an entertaining yet disappointing film as a whole.
Non Stop has very simple plot; An air marshal receives random text messages and lives are threatened. Only problem is, after every twenty minutes, a passenger is killed, unless, $150 million dollars is transferred to an account off shore. That's basically it, but what keeps the film going is the classic "Who done it?" formula.
The film does a great job at building tension, but it fails to hold it throughout the film, and the pacing just doesn't balance well. At some moments the film begins racing at 100 km/h, and then suddenly it slows down to 5 and goes into autopilot. There's also only three action sequences, with the first one placed late within the first act, and the last two in the final act. The end fight will come off as underwhelming, but at least it was there. The acting was fine, but some of the cast were heavily underused.
All in all, Non Stop is an entertaining but sadly, flawed, disappointing and forgettable film. If you took the tense bits of Die Hard, added all of the boring bits of Under Siege, throw in the plot of Unknown and have the setting in the plane, this would probably be the outcome. Non Stop isn't a must see, and I'd prefer to rent it on a rainy day.
6.6/10