Liam's Lingering Action Slump continues....

Rating: 2/10 (7 March 2014)

I am a big fan of the Liam Neeson and have become an even bigger fan of his slap-fu action films over the last 5-6 years starting with Taken, A-Team, The Grey, even Unknown was decent...Liam could do no wrong! So I thought.
First there was the absolutely awful Battleship - terrible idea, craptastic script, complete Peter Berg fumble. Huge budget, lost a ton of money and should have just never been made. But hey, it happens, everyone makes a mistake.
Then oh thank God, they're making a sequel to Taken, can't go wrong! Oh wait...Oops. All things that made Taken awesome where bastardized into this pathetic effort at a sequel that disappointed fans of the first film to no end. Personally I just try to forget this film ever happened.
And now we have Non-Stop...if you thought Bryan Mills using hand grenades while running across rooftops of Istanbul to find his kidnapped daughter wasn't stupid enough, well then we got just the plot for you! Non-Stop is a non-stop roller-coaster of ridiculousness from terrible campy lines to bad acting by good actors (guilty parties include Liam, Julianne Moore & Scoot McNairy) to the over-the-top unbelievable plot. The only saving grace of this film is Liam's ability to dominate every adversary in his path in the same fantastic fighting method (I described earlier as "slap-fu") he's employed over this last 5-6 year span of action films.
If you expect Non-Stop to be a reboot of Bryan Mills version 1.0 (Taken) just stop, you'll be reminded that version 2.0 (Taken 2) did happen and immediate become sad. I hinge my hopes on Liam coming out of the action-slump soon as I happen to see that Taken 3 pops up on his IMDb profile as "announced" for 2015...please be good, please be good!