Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Non-Stop
2014
**½
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery, Nate Parker, Jason Butler Harner, Anson Mount, Linus Roache, Corey Still, Lupita Nyong'o

Liam Neeson continues in the action hero mode and this time his plane is Taken. He plays Bill Marks, a semi-alcoholic air marshal, who receives a threatening text during a transatlantic flight. A passenger dies every 20 minutes unless \$150M are wired to an offshore bank account. As Marks attempts to find the sender on board, his increasingly erratic behaviour begins to turn the crew and passengers against him. This claustrophobic thriller follows in the footsteps of Flightplan. It is set almost entirely inside an aircraft and it features a plot which is absolutely ridiculous, to say the least. Jaume Collet-Serra builds suspense very capably, but when the big reveal comes, the questions Why? and How? remain poorly answered?