WATCH HERE --->>> tvheer/watch-non-stop-online-free-movie WATCH HERE --->>> tvheer/watch-non-stop-online-free-movie WATCH HERE --->>> tvheer/watch-non-stop-online-free-movie WATCH HERE --->>> tvheer/watch-non-stop-online-free-movie It is somewhat a cliché to invoke Alfred Hitchcock whenever any filmmaker crafts a remotely efficient thriller. Yet Jaume Collet-Serra has built a growing body of mainstream work that would genuinely qualify as “Hitchcock-ian”. In the sense that not every Hitchcock thriller was as scary as Psycho or as psychologically probing as Vertigo, Collet-Serras’s genre entries (House of Wax, Orphan, Unknown) have a kind of playful absurdity and occasionally ghoulish violence that brings to mind what one might consider B-grade Hitchcock. Non-Stop is the kind of film that Hitchcock might have made in his heyday, or at least one he would have enjoyed. nonstop-posterThe primary selling point from a box office point-of-view is of course Liam Neeson in another action-hero role. To the extent that the film will or won’t be a box office success will be due to audiences showing up to watch Neeson bark at people and occasionally beat them up and/or shoot at them. The Universal (a division of Comcast ) release cost $50 million to produce, so its projected over/under $25 million debut will count as a win. As I wrote yesterday, Neeson is really one of the last A-level action stars, so a strong performance for this picture would go a long way both to preserving his action stardom and in convincing studios not to entirely give up on the non-fantasy action genre. For the record, the film has as much in common with Taken as First Blood has in common with Cliffhanger, so those who would merely score points by calling it Taken 3 or “Taken In An Airplane“ are doing all parties a disservice. It is an old-school thriller as opposed to a relentless action movie, an effective and almost-plausible genre entry that has little in mind other than to play the audience like a piano. The story involves Neeson’s over-the-hill Federal Air Marshal who starts getting threatening text messages from a passenger on his flight. Said texter eventually threatens to kill a passenger every twenty minutes into $150 million is transferred into an account.
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