Mediocre at best, but could be far worse.

Rating: 5/10 (6 July 2014)

When I first saw the trailers for Non-stop I thought "Oh god, that looks awful." Unfortunately my wife decided to get it through netflix and I must say, its not awful. Its certainly not good, but its not awful.
For most of its length the movie is a decent suspense thriller. Its not a great one, but once you shut your mind off to the plot details, you can get into the "who's doing it?" "How are they going to get away with it?" aspects.
Unfortunately with about 20 minutes or so to go the movie completely gives up any pretense of being decent. I won't give you any spoilers, but it goes from mediocre to just plain dumb. I mean, seriously, it lost a star just for that, it would have been a slightly more mediocre 6.
Liam Neeson does a good job of the role he's sort of slouched into, being angry punching people.
Julianne Moore was completely wasted. I have no idea why she was in this movie except to put another "star" in it? Totally under utilized and her character is, well it just feels like it was written in to give room to another name.
The best aspect of this movie is the director realized he didn't have 2 hours worth of material. He didn't even have the 1:46 of material, but still, in this day and age of every horrible film feeling like it needs to be 2 hours + having a mediocre movie clock in at 1:46 is a breath of fresh air. Another 15 minutes would have been painful. Honestly I think so many Hollywood films I've hated lately would benefit from just being 90-105 minutes long instead of 120-150 minutes long, but that strays from this already rambling review.