Saw Non-Stop last night, starring Liam Neeson. Though he is perhaps getting a little old to play the action hero, he is awfully good at it and Non-Stop is another successful stint for him.
Liam Neeson is an air marshal on a crowded, long Atlantic flight, when he receives a message that someone will be killed every 20 minutes. On the surface this just seems like another generic “good guy hunting down the bad guy before he kills a bunch of people” film, but there are some twists. Obviously it takes place in the sky on an airplane, which when you hear it seems gimmicky, but it works well. Also, the bad guy goes about his killings in unique ways. I don’t want to give anything anyway, but the movie does a great job of making you question every single passenger, as Liam himself has to. The trailers leading up to the movie suggested it could be one particular person, and I’m glad it ended up being someone else. I hate trailers that give away too much, and the ending was plenty surprising for me.
My friends joked that this was simply Taken 3, and it’s not (that film is going to be made next year!), but it does seem Liam has found a niche here with these kinds of roles. Though his action characters are a bit one dimensional, he has the voice and the mannerisms to make them very believable.
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