'Stop the rock,Cant stop the rock'.

Rating: 8/10 (5 March 2014)

After last year being introduced to a thrilling series of Action movies starring Liam Neeson called Taken by a fellow IMDb'er last year,I was thrilled to discover a few days ago that Neeson's newest Action title was about to hit UK cinemas,which led to me excitingly getting ready to witness,what would hopefully be a non-stop action thrill ride.
The plot:
Confirming with fellow Air Marshal Jack Hammond the next flight that they are to guard,undercover Air Marshal Bill Marks takes a close look at the passenger's boarding the plane.Feeling satisfied that everything appears to be secure,Marks makes his way to the plane with Hammond,and boards it.
After calming his nerves down once the plane begins taking flight,Marks begins talking to fellow passenger Jen Summers,as he settles in for a long,dull flight.Suddenly Marks hears a noise on his phone which signals that a txt has been received.Expecting the message to be Hammond confirming that things are going OK with the flight,Marks soon discovers that a plan is about to unfold,which threatens to stop the plane from ever reaching its destination.
View on the film:
Placing the none plane moments of the title as bookends to the movie,director Jaume Collet-Serra, (who had earlier worked with Neeson on the 2011 Action film Unknown)makes the plane a chillingly claustrophobic setting,by using tight,cornered shots to brilliantly show that Marks and the passengers have no where to escape from the increasing sense of fear & paranoia that is rolling across the residence's of the plane.
Despite being limited to one location,the screenplay by Ryan Engle,Christopher Roach and John W. Richardson,keeps the first hour of the film flying at a lightning fast pace,thanks to the writers giving the terror a wonderfully sense of mystery,by making Marks only interaction with the unfolding threat be from pop-up txt Disappointingly,after having build up the movie with hard-nose,bonkers Action and mysterious tension,the writers decide to give the film a 'twist ending',which despite being rather left field feels completely disconnected to what the title appeared to be building up towards.
Joined by a charmingly kooky Julianne Moore,Liam Neeson gives a fantastic,gruff performance as Bill Marks,with Neeson barking orders and hitting anyone who gets in his way on the plane in a number of tough and gritty action scenes.Along with breaking anything that gets in front of him,Neeson also gives Marks a rather endearing side,by showing that Marks is prepared to point out the flaws in his personal life,as he aims for this non-stop flight to reach its destination.