Non Stop [Edizione: Regno Unito] [Italia] [DVD]

Breath taking fabulous film.

Sold and delivered by Amazon UK; undamaged, new & shrink-wrapped. A sub-£2.00 Amazon bargain! (I bought this for the Mrs, as our old Spanish languages dvd version also has English language, but without English subtitles - and the on-screen mobile phone text messages sent to Neeson, by the baddie, were also in Spanish!) Another winner from Liam Neeson, with his "Unknown", "Run All Night", "The Commuter" director Jaume Collette Serra; with a good supporting cast, and cinematography. An implausible, but well placed, enjoyable thriller, which just survives an unsurvivable ending! Took nearly $US230 million dollars, plus DVD/Blu Ray sales, but an non-airborne sequel is yet to happen. Recommended... in original English language, with English subtitles!

Liam Neeson plays an ex alcoholic, Bill Marks, now an Air Marshall on a non stop flight to the USA. He seems lucky enough to be travelling Business class and ends up sitting next to Julianne Moore who starts to chat him up.Bill Marks gets a text on his phone to say that the sender will kill one person on the plane every twenty minutes unless the airline transfers $150 million into an off-shore account. Upon investigation the account is in Mark’s name and then they look into his dodgy history and put two and two together to make six and think it is Marks holding the airline to ransom. Meanwhile Marks has to try and stop the real killer and blackmailer from killing people on the plane with no help from outside.~~~~~~ MY VIEWS ~~~~~~The plot is quite good and although an unlikely scenario it had us gripped from early on in the film. The acting of Neeson and Julianne Moore as well as others I thought was pretty good and believable. It is tense and there are several false culprits like any detective mystery has although I did find it frustrating at times with some of the suspects as I had my suspect from quite early one and was correct.The plane inside looked pretty authentic and I would imagine they might have used a real plane on the ground of course for the filming but I might be wrong I suppose. The setting is pretty much the plane and nowhere else. I have since discovered that in fact the plane was a set and it was built very slightly larger than a standard commercial airliner to allow for Neeson's 6'4" height for filming.The music score by John Ottman really added to the tension. It was orchestral and the sort that makes background to a film rather than being really memorable tunes. It went well with the film’s action and tension and helped to build the atmosphere.Things like the fact that there was much talk about not being able to throw the bomb out of the plane because the pressure would make it explode and then a bit later gun shots were fired and this caused the cabin to become depressurised at 28,000 feet, so why did the bomb not explode then?“Non-Stop” didn’t win any prizes as it is not really that original nor did it do anything very deep or different from the run of the mill escapist thriller mystery. It was easy watching and a fun film that did keep us hooked till the end despite having flaws. It was far from perfect but a bit like an Agatha Christie detective mystery novel it had all the elements of an action adventure mystery film and was well acted and even though there were times when you had to suspend belief , as my husband says “It’s a movie ….” We did enjoy 106 minutes of tense watching and neither of us suggested switching it off as we have dome with some recently. It was rather like reading a holiday type beach read book, it required little brain power and kept us entertained for the entire film.

I was debating whether to give this film 3 or 4 stars and decided to be generous as it is difficult to come up with an original plot nowadays.And despite the fact that Liam Neeson has basically played the same part in every film he's done lately,he still does it well and is probably the only action hero I can take seriously in this new age of tongue-in-cheek action flicks starring muscle bound 70 year olds and washed up actors who seem impervious to bullets and can still crack bad one-liners after being blown up fourteen times! The reason for my indecision - for a film called 'Non-stop' it starts off quite slow and a bit seen it all before,but is saved as the situation becomes quite tense and genuinely unpredictable,before the quality dips again with a slightly over the top climax.But it did keep me entertained and I didn't figure out whodunnit,which is a rare thing, so it gets 4 stars accordingly.Thriller fans will find something to enjoy and Liam Neeson fans will love it.

During a flight from New York to London, Bill Marks, a former cop dealing with his daughter's death by drinking, and is now a federal air marshal, receives a series of text messages informing him that a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes until the airline transfers $150 million to an offshore account. Can he find the terrorist in time and save everyone?Running time: 107 minsGenre: Action/AdventureCast: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Anson Mount, Scoot McNairy, Michelle DockeryTo my mind not a great movie the dialogue is poor, the look is advert glossy, the CGI could be better, the performances are hugely variable; the action is brief and messy and the plot is hard to believe. All in all, like Collet-Serra's and Neeson's previous outing, this is an efficient and enjoyable thriller which will never be lauded as a classic, and never really attempts to make any sense, but further cements its star as the go-to guy for solid, old school rough 'n' tumble.