Non-Stop (2014) Non-Stop Blu-ray delivers stunning video and audio in this fan-pleasing Blu-ray release 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 very 20 minutes. What follows is a nail-biting cat and mouse game played at 40,000 feet, with the lives of 200 passengers hanging in the balance. For more about Non-Stop and the Non-Stop Blu-ray release, see published by Kenneth Brown on May 29, 2014 where this Blu-ray release scored 3.5 out of 5. Director: Starring:,,,,, ». Non-Stop Blu-ray Review No return flight available. Reviewed by, May 29, 2014 'Thrilling and intense,' screams Non-Stop's cover art. 'A taught, suspenseful thriller in the vein of Hitchcock,' raves a random Midwestern critic trying much too hard to achieve poster-quote fame. Adding, 'with an ending you won't see coming!' Is Jaume Collet-Serra's Non-Stop thrilling? In many ways, yes. Strands of its DNA are ripped straight from the Master of Suspense and, for a while, it sorta, kinda, almost works. (Squinting and staring at the script sideways helps too.) Stop, pause or take a breath, though, and it all starts to unravel. And good God, don't for a second actually devote any thought to anything that happens on screen. For all its turbulent twisting and turning, the film is a gripping but brainless pileup of plot holes and impossible leaps in logic that gets less and less plausible as it hurtles toward its ludicrous endgame. Collet-Serra not only goes to inhuman lengths to make every passenger, flight attendant, air marshal and pilot a suspect, he manufacturers tension with increasingly contrived tricks of the genre trade, only to burn it all to the ground with a ridiculous third act that shows something akin to contempt for any good will its audience has invested. During a seemingly routine transatlantic flight from New York to London, burned-out veteran U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) begins receiving a series of cryptic text messages threatening that a passenger will die every twenty minutes unless $150 million is transferred into an off-shore bank account. With the lives of hundreds of passengers hanging in the balance, including that of Jen Summers (Julianne Moore), one of the only people he can trust, Bill must draw on all of his training and skill to uncover the identity of the killer traveling aboard the aircraft. Non-Stop is as frantic and busy as it is exhausting. Sideways glances, shifty passengers, suspicious faces, questionable motives, claustrophobia, a ticking clock, an abundance of cell phones (each with too-good-to-be-true service), and a devious plot to frame Marks as the terrorist mastermind conspire to make Collet-Serra's slowburn, 40,000-feet actioner a sweaty, jittery misfire of modern suspense.
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