Everyone who sees the trailers and TV-spots for
Non-Stop,
the ones where Liam Neeson beats people up on an airplane while racing against time to stop a hijacking, quickly labels the film “
Taken
on an airplane”. If only it was.
Taken
transformed the dramatically gifted Neeson into a rare breed of authentic, old-age action hero, and the key to what makes that film such a great time is how willing it is to bypass a sensible plot in favor of one bonkers smack-down after another.
Taken
is infectiously ballistic, and you can tell from its trailers that
Non-Stop
wants to be the same. And though Neeson’s beat-downs and shouting threats still hit with brute force, screenwriters John W. Richardson, Chris Roach, and Ryan Engle pack so many unneeded, eye-rolling clichés into the story that
Non-Stop
is neither as emotional as it wants to be nor as ludicrously fun as…
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