The Older You Get, The More You Look Great

NON-STOP
[★★★★☆]

The older you get, the more you look charismatic.

What else can I say for Liam Neeson? I began to be his fans since I watched Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and he acted as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. He stole my attention, until now. Then, on Monday I had a date and watched his latest movie, Non-Stop.

This movie tells about hijacked airplane. And the story begins from US Air Marshal Bill Marks, he goes to UK from US with his friend Jack Hammond, for his last duty. While on trip, he receives mysterious texts from The Unknown who forces Bill to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. The Unknown intimidates Bill, if he couldn’t transfer a number of money, The Unknown would kill one of the passenger in 20 minutes. Bill is curious, who the hell is this sucker? He asks help from the flight attendances, Nancy and Gwen, includes the pilot and co-pilot and a lady who next to him, Jennifer Summers. Bill asks Nancy and Jen to look at the security cameras of the cabin, they must be look at the passengers and see who are using the phones. They get some names: Tom Bowen, Austin Reilly, Charles Wheeler, Dr Fahim Nasir (why do always they put a Moslem guy on every terrorism story?) and Jack Hammond.

Oh well, who are they?

Tom Bowen have met Bill before they go inside the airport. I don’t know what his job is. They don’t talking each other. Austin Reilly is an NYPD, he is too shifty, so I guess many people guessing that he is a suspect. Charles Wheeler, he looks like a businessman, I don’t know exactly. Dr Fahim Nasir, as we know he is a doctor. Jack Hammond, he is an agent too like Bill, they’re friend but not partner.

Bill sees Jack goes to aircraft lavatory, they’re having some conversations, but they get some miscommunication then they fight. Jack died. He is the first victim on those plane. But it happens like Bill is the suspect. He is trapped.

Somehow, Bill takes Jack’s suitcase after he checks Jack’s phone. And there is a huge box of cocaine. Bill is shocked.

The Unknown sends a new text to Bill, he wants to repeat the game in 20 minutes, again. So he sets his timer watch to 20 minutes. If Bill still couldn’t transfer the money, any passenger could die. During Bill is looking for the suspects, he gets a new text, the passenger can be anyone, but who says it must be a passenger? Bill thinks that the next target is Nancy, one of the stewardess. But actually, the next victim is the pilot.

The game is still on. 20 minutes again for the next victim. Jen Summer meets with a programmer who hired in IT company at UK, named Zack White. Bill needs his skill to help him tracking the suspect’s phone. They get it. So that, Bill orders the business class passengers to move out to the economy class. All the passengers getting angry then protest Bill why they should do that. And to keep them calm, Bill claims that they will be offered a year’s worth of International trip, if only they would do what Bill orders. (It’s little bit a silly part, nobody can’t resist a year’s worth of International trip, noted, for free! And Liam Neeson looks so stressed.)

Hmm okay, the next victim is, Charles Wheeler. The phone is founded on his pocket. But he doesn’t admit that he did anything before, he knows nothing. Bill keep forces him to admit it, but he admits nothing. Then, suddenly Wheeler died. There’s a poison dart on his pocket.

Scene by scene, Bill finds bomb inside cocaine on Jack’s suitcase. He warns all the passengers and tells the co-pilot to do hijacked procedure. When Bill and men passengers moving suitcases on the cabin baggage to cover the bomb on backside plane, Bowen suddenly attacks Bill, and Zack tries to trick Reilly (on this scene, Reilly is helping Bill because he is an NYPD). The suspects are Bowen and Reilly.

I often watch movies and stories telling about hijacked like this. Overall, this is a good movie. But for climax story, it’s little bit disappointing. At last part, Bowen explains why he does it, but he gives an unreasonable excuse, for revenge he says, because his dad died when 9/11 tragedy. How coooooome? Is Bill God, so he had to help his dad? Hahahaa..

But, the other side, this movie makes a different thought about Moslem, even on early story, it shows some suspicious gestures from Dr. Fahim Nasir. Fahim Nasir is not a suspect, he doesn’t do any terrorism.

PS: sorry for this messy post. I lost my mood