Non-Stop (2014) - It's Not Quite So...

★★★☆☆

I don’t know since when Liam Neeson felt like he’d be better off becoming an action hero, but he’s ‘Taken’ twice. One’s fresh. One’s boring. This time his plane’s taken, and he’s an alcoholic air marshal, part of the U.S. Department of Home Security set up after the 911 attacks. But hey terrorist attacks don’t necessarily come from outside the country. It could and mostly would be triggered by its own people. You know there’re always some bad apples. They’re considered bad because they refuse to buy the Government’s bullshit and live with a lie. And we’re good because we side with it and believe that justice’s after all so worth fighting for.

‘Non-Stop’ is more like an interesting mind game than a pack of mindless actions. You’re given pieces of a puzzle one by one on the way, and you won’t be able to guess the whole picture till it reveals itself at last. It’s actually kind of a cliché, but the flight is indeed quite engrossing. It raises an issue to me: how to really stay safe. Home Security Department? Air Marshals? FBI? CIA? Anti-Terrorist Wars? Control and Surveillance? Or nuclear weapons? I guess all that can keep you safe is nothing but a good heart!

Another surprise: Liam Neeson’s Bill is not the hero of the film. Who is then? Go check it out for yourself.