Spoilers! It's engrossing & suspenseful but in that almost too painful to watch way. Right off the bat then again every few minutes there's another absurd plot flaw. Why is a known alcoholic still employed as an Air Marshal? Why does Neeson order a drink he won't be served cuz the flight attendants know he's on duty? So hello passenger next to me: that's not oddly noticeable, she got her drink but he water when they ordered the same thing at the same time?? Why is the airline confirming a highjcking in progress to the news-seen on the plane live-identifying Neeson? How's that not make the situation more dangerous. Why are the passengers so belligerent (how about a racist stereotype of a rough black guy-really??)? Why is Neeson acting so volitlle & rough almost immediately? Again, creating passenger anxiety is counterintuitive?? Why can the tech guy turn on & find the highjackers phone but no one suggests he try to unlock it? Then why & I think this may be the most absurd of all, does Moore suggest GUESSING at the phones passcode? Why do they insist on disconnecting the planes WiFi?? Is it dangerous or something? It THAT what highjacked the plane-really how on earth does that help foil the way-too-quickly-concluded suspect Neeson's evil plan? It was so poorly written that I was waiting for the next huge gaping plot hole rather than what's going to happens next. So many so often I found it far more WTF frustrating than disappointing. Kinda feel sorry for Hollywood's pathetic miss on what could have been a great movie! Or at least not something the big name actors should perhaps be ashamed of taking part in if they respect their chosen profession? Sigh...

What a pity to see acting talent like Neeson and Moore wasted on this nonsensical plot. For starters, almost the entire film is spent inside the aircraft, and before that, for a few minutes, inside an airport, making it an almost unbearably claustrophobic film. As if that were not unpleasant enough, Moore disappears from the screen for long periods, almost as if she leaves the plane, only to return to speak a few pointless lines to Neeson. She is not even seen mingling with other passengers, she does not appear in passenger group shots, but, rather, moves suspiciously around the toilet area, near the air hostesses and cockpit, and she contributes ZERO to the plot, apart from what appears to be a sudden blossoming of unexpected love for Neeson in the movie's last frames. Neeson, usually a highly reliable actor, is apathetic and never comes into his own in this flick - but then, he is not helped by a script that variously makes him a hero or a vlllain, and where passengers facing bomb and other threats actually have the luxury of watching TV and learning that Neeson is a psychopath cop, as if personal data like that were conveyed over TV, especially when there are hundreds of lives at risk in an aircraft under attack from a villain who is anything but credible or menacing, and who, for no apparent reason, actually saves Neeson from passenger lynching at one point.There is another, NYPD cop on board, but he is just as dumb and gullible as the would-be robbers/criminals, and tenderfoot as the little girl who reminds Neeson of his own dead daughter. So schmaltzy...The final straw in terms of credibility is the bomb that explodes and yet the plane is able to land with everyone apparently unscathed. I could have kicked myself for watching this NON-STOP rubbish to the end. Best avoided. Gets 1 star because I can't zero it.

This movie shows a lot parallels to Flightplan, (if I had to pick one I would choose the female power of Jodie, and because Non-Stop is slightly heavier on the action-side and Flightplan slightly more on the drama-side, but) both movies are fantastic and their biggest success is that beside being extremely thrilling, they show the pain and the powerlessness and stress when you know you know/speak the truth, but you are being manipulated in such a way that nobody believes you. And to people who think the plots are illogical/exaggerated etc. - well, I can only say: these people are the proof of the realism of the plot. Fates are different, and correspondingly ignorant and arrogant is some people's behavior. The people who think the plot is unbelievable are usually the ones who trust the bombers / blackmailers / liars and applaud them (they are not always bombers, but they are, for example, spiritual instigators and more often than not money is their goal as well) and the victims who do know the truth, they do not believe them, they disrespect and even blame them and make their life a torment. This is happening every day, and only the ignorant / arrogant / inexperienced and naive, who have always been lucky and have never experienced suffering and lack of respect and lack of support and never really had to fight hard, deny this - and they think their happiness is their own achievement alone - ha ha, how nasty and blind can people be (it is exactly these people who never had to struggle). And that these movies successfully address and show this phenomenon is a success of its own, and in addition there is the superb acting, and an extremely suspenseful production. Check them both out!

Probably not the best plot, or not even a perfect crew of actors besides Liam Neeson, but the good point of the movie is none of those, but the thrill it gives you on certain moments. It leaves you to keep trying to think and guess who is the responsible behind the scenes, but it keeps you around, with no clue at all, and that is what will make you with your eyes fixed to the screen, because you want to know who is behind all this. What also got my attention was that in certain moments, everything change, and all my guesses were wrong and it backs to 0. A very interesting movie, but if you are looking for an action movie or a movie with a shooting scene, that is not your movie, this is the kind of movie, the involves terrorism and stays with the thriller type.