2014 continues to be a strong year for movies, with the latest being Non-Stop. From the trailer, Non-Stop looked very stupid and ridiculous – but also fun in a very popcorn movie type of way. Luckily, Non-Stop is a lot more than that. It’s a great, well acted, suspenseful and tensely directed thriller.
Non-Stop is about Air Marshal Bill Marks (Liam Nesson), who is an undercover air marshal whose job is to fly undercover and watch the passengers. He has a dark past and goes to work on a regular day. Upon arriving, he encounters several passengers and makes a mental note of them all. The flight begins and is in progress until he gets a text message saying that unless money is transferred to an account, someone will die every 20 minutes. He thinks it is fake, until someone dies after 20 minutes. This begins a mystery of who is sending the texts and how to stop them before more killings occur.
Non-Stop is a very tense thriller due in part to it’s very strong direction. The direction is easily one of the best elements of the movie. The style works in favor of the story and the direction also helps as a it is directed as a condensed location thriller. It keeps up the suspense alive, even though the script occasionally falters.
The script is overall strong. Luckily, the trailer does not give away much, unlike many trailers recently. The script continually takes twists and turns, featuring all the elements that make a good mystery thriller. It does get unbelievable and ridiculous at times with motives and directions the story takes. But the other elements of the movie make up for it.
The overall strong script and tense direction create the atmosphere lasting throughout the movie. The cast also is uniformly strong. Overall, Non-Stop is a great suspenseful thriller that overcomes it’s occasionally weak script with strong direction.
Non-Stop is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, some, language, sensuality and drug references. I give Non-Stop a non-stop B+.
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