![]() ![]() With obvious correlations to such classics of detective fiction as “ And Then There Were None” and “ Murder on the Orient Express,” the film tells the story of an air marshal (Neeson) who must identify and thwart a passenger who is threatening, by text message, to kill one person on the plane every 20 minutes unless he receives $150 million. The gimmick, in this case, is that the movie is an old-fashioned Agatha Christie novel set on an airplane. Still, Liam Neeson lends the effort a gravitas that makes it, at least by the standards of gimmicky thrillers, a perfectly entertaining antidote to all the Important Films that have been filling up your pre-Oscar-night to-do list. Made for the multiplex, it’s a middlebrow murder mystery with a lot of “ Airport” DNA in its genes. ![]() “ Non-Stop” is by no means a perfect movie. ![]()
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