Non-Stop (2013)

Better Late Then Never

Absolutely Fantastic

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

If you're one of those people who loves to have 90 minutes (120 minutes with commercials) of their life completely wasted, you HAVE to see NON-STOP; another terrible Lifetime thriller that passes as close to a watchable movie as ground beef does to sirloin. A heartbroken and annoyingly anxious woman (overacted by the unconvincing Chabert) has a mile-high temptation with a stranger, who… you guessed it… is a complete psycho—what else did you expect?, after all, this is a Lifetime movie. What's even worse than this moronic plot are the characters' inexplicable actions, leaving the viewing thinking (or even saying) "This would never happen!"—case in point, the 9-1-1 dispatcher would NEVER get off the line with the caller. If you decided to spend four straight hours staring at a concrete wall, you'd probably find your time more fulfilling than if you wasted less than half that time on this "movie".* (out of four)

No vote for this silly movie. To begin with it was an old plot that has been done and done and overdone before with much more success than this.I find it hard to believe anything our leading lady does in this. Lacey Chabert was a disaster. Her acting was one look throughout the movie. Wandering around the plane looking at every body and everything. If I were a passenger on a plane and she was doing that, I'd lock her in the bathroom. She bothered everyone. This dainty demure little thing suddenly has the strength of Goliath when she's cornered. Dropping men and even killing them without batting an eye.I was also bothered with her mouth. Seemed like she was always pouting. It was annoying. Thank heavens the supporting cast fared better. In the likes of Drew Shelley, Will Kemp, Amy Davidson (she was terrific), Jim O'Heir and Veronica Cartwight in a surprisingly different role.They all did the best they could with the likes of Chabert in the lead role. But the film LMN of course did nothing for this viewer.

Accidentally watched it when I meant to see the Liam Neeson movie.I'm still confused if this movie was meant to be satire or not. If it was, it certainly wasn't funny enough, but I'm afraid it wasn't meant that way. Everything about this movie is off. Every character, even the secondary characters. "Hi, my name is Kevin. I'm from the... airline." Totally believable, like he forgot the name of the airline he's working for. Every detail is off, too. Weird 2-second turbulence, wrong engine sounds, wrong airplane in the news. Plot holes and WTF- moments were already mentioned, there's a gazillion of them. Gets more funny towards the ending, though: (SPOILER ALTERT) After a 9 hr flight full of conspiracy the hijacker trips over the main characters shoe, landing chest-first in the knife that he held chasing after her. COME ON.Bottom line: Watch it for a good laugh, but nothing else.

What a bizarre little movie. Lacey Chabert plays a recently-jilted woman on a transatlantic flight full of weirdos. The airline has a logo very similar to that of Aerosmith, which amused me. There's a mystery about a disappearing passenger she made out with after knowing for five minutes as well as a plot about a brotherhood of terrorists...or something like that.The quality of the acting varies. Some I'm sure were intentionally eccentric (Betsy Russell, Veronica Cartwright). Others not so sure (Bo Svenson, Will Kemp). Then there's the outright terrible (Drew Seeley, David Lipper). Chabert does fine and portrays her character as a little emotionally unstable which actually adds an extra layer of interesting to the proceedings. There's a sense of disquiet about it all early on and this is in large part due to her character being so...off. About midway through it becomes a slightly more traditional Turbulence or Flight Plan type of air thriller. But the moments of weird never go away, as the bizarre supporting cast keeps popping up like hiccups in the plot. Just as Chabert is investigating her little mystery on board the plane, here comes Betsy Russell telling her to sit down for the millionth time or some random other guy I don't know the name of who seemed to only be in the movie so he could be a momentary red herring. Chabert even refers to him as "that guy" so I'm not sure what the heck his character's name is.It's a movie filled with offbeat characters. A crazy bearded guy who seems obsessed with Lacey at the airport only to disappear from the movie altogether, a rude stewardess with a drinking problem, a boyish steward fresh out of acting school who never seems to blink, a kooky old lady who claims she's an empath, a little blonde girl and her Hispanic nanny, a fat guy who doesn't want anybody sitting next to him, a supposed Interpol agent, and a mysterious Brit who seduces our heroine with ease. "Heroes" fans might enjoy seeing Ando (James Kyson) playing an airline employee who doesn't seem to know the meaning of personal space.The confrontation where Chabert learns the truth behind the mystery is risibly directed -- with the camera zooming in & out, jerking all around while the bad guy does all of his acting with his eyebrows. A character chases another in slow speed and inexplicably trips over a shoe with unintentionally comical results. Just when you think it's all over, look out -- there's a hilariously cheesy cat and busty mouse sequence where Lacey fulfills her cleavage quota that, if not already in her contract, should always be.I want to give them credit for making a weird movie but I'm not sure how much of it was intentional. There are moments where it seems like certain actors are winging it. Other moments where the director lingers on certain scenes like he forgot to yell cut. The hardest part in reviewing this movie is trying to figure out if the movie's oddness is intended or a byproduct of a poorly made film. At least it's like nothing else you'll see from Lifetime or LMN or whatever. If you have the patience it's definitely worth checking out and deciding for yourself.