Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.
It's all fairly entertaining and eminently disposable.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 Feb 2014
fresh:
Why demand logic of an action movie released in February, when audiences just want a nice, bumpy ride?
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
28 Feb 2014
fresh:
Anyone planning to see Non-Stop should probably just go see it. This is one of those near-perfect, peeled-onion, airplane-hijacking thrillers in which each removed layer brings you closer to a single, happy tear.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
28 Feb 2014
fresh:
Neeson, who brings enormous conviction to these late-career action roles, moves his big body through confined spaces ... with so much power that you expect him to rip out the seats.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
3 Mar 2014
fresh:
The filmmaking is playful without feeling jokey, the narrative stuffed with fun complications.