Non-Stop (2014)

February 26, 2014 (FR) • Action, Thriller, Mystery • 107m

Overview

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.

Director

Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers

John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach, Ryan Engle, John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach

Top Billed

Liam Neeson

Keywords

airplane hijacking murder airplane hijacking terrorism cell phone transatlantic text messaging mystery killer flight attendant ransom demand air marshal frantic airplane flight suspicious

Where to watch

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Top Billed Cast

Liam Neeson

Bill Marks

Julianne Moore

Jen Summers

Scoot McNairy

Tom Bowen

Michelle Dockery

Nancy

Nate Parker

Zack White

Jason Butler Harner

Kyle Rice

Corey Stoll

Austin Reilly

Omar Metwally

Dr. Fahim Nasir

Lupita Nyong'o

Gwen

Anson Mount

Jack Hammond

Linus Roache

David McMillan

Shea Whigham

Agent Marenick

Quinn McColgan

Becca

Corey Hawkins

Travis Mitchell

Frank Deal

Charles Wheeler

Bar Paly

Iris Marianne

Edoardo Costa

Herve Philbert

Jon Abrahams

David Norton

Amanda Quaid

Emily Norton

Beth Dixon

Older Woman

Cameron Moir

Steward

Lars Gerhard

German Father

Oliver Lehne

German Son

Michael Thomas Walker

Michael Tate

Pat Kiernan

NY 1 Anchor

Annika Pergament

NY 1 Reporter

Victoria Arbiter

Tilkynna 3 Reporter

Jefrey Pollock

Pundit

Hank Sheinkopf

Pundit

Dani de Waal

Airline Attendant

Adi Hanash

Security Officer

Charlotte Kirk

Amy Harris

Michael Kaplan

Passenger (uncredited)

Crew

Jennifer Lamb

Stunts

Ron Bochar

Supervising Sound Editor

Ron Bochar

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Allan Zaleski

Sound Effects Editor

Jaume Collet-Serra

Director

John W. Richardson

Screenplay

Christopher Roach

Screenplay

Alex Heineman

Producer

Andrew Rona

Producer

Joel Silver

Producer

Ryan Engle

Screenplay

John W. Richardson

Story

Christopher Roach

Story

John Ottman

Original Music Composer

Flavio Martínez Labiano

Director of Photography

Jim May

Editor

Alec Hammond

Production Design

David Swayze

Art Direction

Regina Graves

Set Decoration

Catherine Marie Thomas

Costume Design

Amanda Mackey

Casting

Cathy Sandrich Gelfond

Casting

Patricia Regan

Makeup Department Head

Kirstin Mooney

Art Department Coordinator

Sam Page

Set Designer

Laura Downing

Costume Supervisor

Rebecca Levin

Set Costumer

Taylor Smith

Set Costumer

Timothy Paustian

Transportation Captain

Thomas Reilly

Transportation Co-Captain

Tom Kramer

Music Editor

Joanna Shelmidine

Stunts

Harold Parker

VFX Artist

B.L. Jurgens

Visual Effects Producer

Jason Harris

Other

Steve Richards

Executive Producer

Ron Halpern

Executive Producer

Takahide Kawakami

Second Assistant Director

Mark Vanselow

Stunt Coordinator

Jery Hewitt

Stunt Coordinator

Carmel Musgrove

Associate Producer

Music Supervisor

Don Hewitt Sr.

Stunts

Nitasha Bhambree

Stunts

Mark Vanselow

Stunt Double

Gwyneth E. Larsen

Stunts

Nnamdi Nwosa

Stunts

Mark Odgers

Stunts

Sara Flamm

Production Supervisor

Edward Ioffreda

Graphic Designer

Karl Shefelman

Storyboard Artist

John Davis

Storyboard Artist

Thomas Lappin

"A" Camera Operator

Simon Jayes

"B" Camera Operator

Simon Jayes

Steadicam Operator

Glenn Kaplan

First Assistant "A" Camera

Tim Metivier

First Assistant "B" Camera

Jeff Pinette

Second Assistant "A" Camera

Gavin Fernandez

Second Assistant "B" Camera

Liza D. Espinas

Associate Editor

Jeremy Newmark

VFX Editor

Sam Bollinger

Assistant Editor

Debra L. Tennant

Assistant Editor

Eliza Coleman

Stunts

Alexa Zimmerman

Dialogue Editor

Jeff Butcher

Property Master

Gina Alfano

ADR Editor

Myles Aronowitz

Still Photographer

Christopher Surgent

First Assistant Director

Reviews

Dark Jedi

⭐ 6/10

July 6, 2014

Generally speaking I like Liam Neeson so when a movie comes out with him in it I generally get it without too many questions asked. It has been a somewhat varied experience. This one is somewhere in the middle of the range I would say. I did indeed have higher hopes for it.

The basic story is quite good but I never really felt very thrilled about the implementation and I more often than not felt frustrated by the various jerks not believing Bill and Bill’s clumsy attempt at convincing people that he was a good guy not to mention controlling the passages. For being an air marshal Bill did not seem to be very good at it. I known he was supposed to be a former drunk but still…

It is still a decent enough movie though which rolls on at a reasonably decent pace. I never really felt compelled to pick up my tablet and start to read something while waiting for the boring parts to pass as have happened with a few other movies. Well, at least not very often. It is not really an action movie though and the scene at the poster is pretty much the only high-octane action scene in the entire movie which was also a bit disappointing. Sure, there are some quite good fights between Bill and various other characters but I would still put this movie more in the thriller genre than in the action one.

The media jerks and the way people seemed to control things outside, or rather not control things, the plane was also really frustrating. I would really have sued the arses of those media dicks afterwards given how they downright slandered both Bill and air marshals in general without any real proof. What happened with innocent until proven guilty. Oh, yeah right, I forgot, that has no meaning to todays media people.

Sadly enough the thriller part never got that thrilling either. I feel this is due to the rather clumsy way that Bill went about things most of the time. He never really gave a professional appearance. This goes for the cop that happened to be on the plane as well by the way. I felt he was really behaving just like some scared member of a mob rather than a trained professional. When the villain was finally exposed and the reasons for the events where explained. Well, let us just say that I went “meh” at that point. On the good side Liam Neeson did make a rather good performance given the kind of script he had to work with.

On the whole it is an okay movie though which is worthwhile to watch but, as I wrote, I had my hopes set a notch higher.

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JPV852

⭐ 7/10

May 26, 2021

Second viewing of this and only works because of Liam Neeson. Despite seeing on the news that the plane was being hijacked, he would get any help from anybody given he had been acting like a crazy man throughout the film. Also the ending was a bit much with the villains' motivations. Still, liked it well enough. **3.5/5**