
3 Buckets of Popcorn

Liam Neeson as Bill Marks and Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary of Downton Abbey) as flight attendant Nancy.
When a movie starts out with the expected hero of the movie drinking alcohol in his car as he’s parked at the airport preparing to board a flight, you know it is not going to be a good day, especially when you figure out that he’s a federal air marshal on board the flight. A quick phone call to his supervisor requesting an immediate return flight and a few days off to take care of pressing personal business reveals the fact that his marriage is falling apart and he has many things on his mind. Being denied his request by his uncaring supervisor exacerbates the situation.

Federal Air Marshal Bill Marks takes charge of the plane.
Shortly after takeoff, Marks receives a text message on his secure channel federal marshal’s phone informing him that someone is going to die in 20 minutes and every 20 minutes after that unless $150 million is wired to an account number.

Federal air marshal Marks receives a text on his secure channel phone informing him of the imminent danger on the plane.
Michelle Dockery, with her modern bobbed hairstyle bears little resemblance to Lady Mary on “Downton Abbey” which she portrays so eloquently. She gives an excellent performance as the flight attendant who is aware of Bill Marks’ problems, delivering a bottle of water when he requests a gin & tonic prior to takeoff,

Lupita Nyong’o as Gwen, another flight attendant trying to hold things together on the ill-fated flight.

Corey Stoll as an NYPD police officer on a vacation trip could be a bad guy or good guy.
It is very seldom that a movie inspires the theater audience to erupt into applause these days, given the detachment of being in a movie theater absent anyone responsible for the entertainment happening on the screen, but it happened in this film, but I won’t tell you when, because I don’t want to ruin the ending for you! I suspect it will spontaneously happen in many more screenings. I thought that “Non-Stop” was an excellent movie with a plot and storyline that keeps you engaged and guessing all of the way through to the big reveal “Whodunit”.

Can you imagine this happening on YOUR FLIGHT over the ocean?
Please leave your comments and how you felt after reading my review and seeing the movie below! I’ll think twice about flying for a while after seeing this movie! How about you?