I for one love wasting time watching dumb movies like this!

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2014)

'NON-STOP': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)
61-year-old Liam Neeson stars in another B action film, in this one he's an alcoholic air marshal dealing with a plane being held hostage (for a 150 million dollar ransom) by a mysterious text messaging criminal. The former Academy Award nominee is also joined in the movie by another former Oscar nominee Julianne Moore and recent winner Lupita Nyong'o! The supporting cast also includes Scoot McNairy, Nate Parker, Corey Stoll, Michelle Dockery, Anson Mount, Shea Whigham and Linus Roache. It was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (who also directed Neeson in the 2011 action thriller 'UNKNOWN') and written by John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach and Ryan Engle. I found the flick to be fun while I was watching it but ultimately forgettable.
Neeson plays Bill Marks, an ex-cop who's now an alcoholic U.S. federal air marshal. He recently lost his job as a police officer, had his wife leave him and lost his eight-year-old daughter to cancer. So he of course drinks a lot to cope. The story takes place aboard Aqualantic Flight 10, a flight from New York to London. We learn Marks is also afraid of flight takeoffs as he explains this to the friendly passenger sitting next to him, named Jen Summers (Moore). Things really get exciting for Marks when he starts getting text messages from a mysterious stranger who's watching him. The texter threatens to kill a passenger every 20 minutes unless Marks can have $150 million delivered to a special bank account. Things become even more complicated when it turns out the account belongs to the air marshal.
Neeson is once again exceptional in the lead action hero role, he's of course above films like this but it's still a lot of fun to watch him. Moore and Nyong'o are of course above material like this too, so is the director, but their talent makes it so much more entertaining. It's the type of movie that I know I'll forget most of within a year or two; like I'll probably forget who the bad guys are and how it ends but that doesn't mean it's still not worth watching. A good time is a good time regardless of whether it's high quality entertainment or not and I for one love wasting time watching dumb movies like this.
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