Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to kill passengers. In a race against the clock, he must identify and stop the killer to save everyone on board.
A mid-flight thriller that works better as a Liam Neeson vehicle than as a coherent mystery — critics generally enjoyed the ride while it lasted but found the final act implausible enough to sour the whole trip. The divide falls between those willing to surrender to its pulpy, illogical pleasures and those who felt the strong setup deserved a smarter payoff. Audiences were kinder than critics, suggesting the film plays much better in a theater than it reads on paper.
“At a certain point either you'll fasten your seat belt and go with Non-Stop's absurd, Looney Tunes logic or you won't. Against my better judgment, I went with it. After all, Neeson has shown time and again that he's the closest thing Hollywood has these days to a box office Rumpelstiltskin. He can spin cheese into gold.”
Chris Nashawaty·Entertainment Weekly
“He's at his best striding up and down the aisles of the aircraft with that big, rolling gait of his, carving out great wads of air with his hands, barking orders, his face in Rodin-ish profile, his destiny, like Mitchum's, enlivened by a nobility far greater than the film he finds himself in – the true sign of a B-movie king”
Tom Shone·The Guardian
Action, Thriller, Mystery
Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to kill passengers. In a race against the clock, he must identify and stop the killer to save everyone on board.
A mid-flight thriller that works better as a Liam Neeson vehicle than as a coherent mystery — critics generally enjoyed the ride while it lasted but found the final act implausible enough to sour the whole trip. The divide falls between those willing to surrender to its pulpy, illogical pleasures and those who felt the strong setup deserved a smarter payoff. Audiences were kinder than critics, suggesting the film plays much better in a theater than it reads on paper.
“At a certain point either you'll fasten your seat belt and go with Non-Stop's absurd, Looney Tunes logic or you won't. Against my better judgment, I went with it. After all, Neeson has shown time and again that he's the closest thing Hollywood has these days to a box office Rumpelstiltskin. He can spin cheese into gold.”
Chris Nashawaty·Entertainment Weekly
“He's at his best striding up and down the aisles of the aircraft with that big, rolling gait of his, carving out great wads of air with his hands, barking orders, his face in Rodin-ish profile, his destiny, like Mitchum's, enlivened by a nobility far greater than the film he finds himself in – the true sign of a B-movie king”
Tom Shone·The Guardian
Action, Thriller, Mystery
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