In Non-Stop, Liam Neeson matches wits with a terrorist on a transatlantic flight.
by Ben Sachs
Director Jaume Collet-Serra and cinematographer Flavio Labiano are both Spanish, which might explain why Non-Stop, the new Liam Neeson thriller, feels more like recent genre entertainment from Spain than from Hollywood: the filmmaking is playful without feeling jokey, the narrative stuffed with fun complications. Like Nacho Vigalondo's Timecrimes (2007), J.A. Bayona's The Orphanage (2007), or Daniel Monzón's Cell 211 (2009), Non-Stop exhibits showmanship in its construction and execution alike—one gets the impression the filmmakers had good fun putting it together.…[ Read more ]