Just enjoy the ride of the movie

Rating: 8/10 (4 April 2014)

Liam Nesson's Non-Stop is a movie that will keep your eyes glued to the screen. There are a lot of action and thrill sequences to keep you entertained. Even though there are points in the movie that don't add up or make sense, you will be too involved into the film to care about it until afterwards.
The introduction of the movie is very clear and efficient in plot and character development. You will feel like you know the protagonist, Bill Marks, right off the bat, as a man who had just gotten out of a divorce and is now an alcoholic. This backdrop to the character is important throughout the plot.
Another interesting aspect of the film's introduction is how Bill encounters or sees passengers of the plane before boarding the flight. With the movie trailer, it is already established that one of these individuals is the culprit to Bill's dilemma in the plot of the movie: being framed. Thusly, this ensues the audience in a little fun mystery game of "Who's the bad guy?" through most of the movie. This is an engaging feature of the movie and makes its audience want that satisfaction of the pieces coming together to solve the crime of this mystery.
(Spoiler Alerts) One of the things that disappoints me in the movie are factual errors and holes in the story. In other words, the movie is not realistic in that it is very unlikely for these series of events to *Ever* happen. How is an entire briefcase of cocaine brought into a plane undetected, let alone a bomb within the substance? Realistically, that briefcase would not have made it anywhere close to the plane. How is it that one of the murders takes place in the bathroom, and the murderer discovered at the end of the movie is never seen to be there? At this point of the movie, the plane is under complete lock down by the air marshal, so nothing could have possibly slipped by him. Or how is it that the plane makes a hard pull upwards and everything starts to float and hover? This hard pull upwards would have made the passengers feel more force of gravity instead of the sense of a freefall.
Many of these parts don't make sense, and to me, it's rather upsetting. Also a little downing is how the movie trailer shows too much of what I believe are the better parts of the movie. Because of that, some of the movie wasn't too much of a surprise or climax where it should have been. Like the scene where Bill grabs the firearm falling in the air due to the supposed "freefall" and fires a round. However, this movie wasn't made solely for a nit-picked plot in my opinion. I see this movie as a theme park attraction: and people want to watch Non-Stop to enjoy the ride. When and if you see this movie, take it with a grain of salt. This "rollercoaster" (known as Non-Stop) will give you a satisfying feeling after the ride.