Non-Stop (2014)

It's yet another plane hi-jacking! But this time there's a twist. The hero's the mirror villain. He kills his partner. The partner carries a kilo coke in his briefcase. The pilot dies of poisoning. The true antagonist keeps sending annoying text messages threatening to kill another person every 20 minutes, and our main character (who we never doubt is the good guy - even when everybody else does - being as we get to see much more than the people on the plane do) does what he can to stop them. Even though he actually kills the first victim himself. He's a federal marshal, played by Liam Nelson, and this all takes place aboard a non-stop flight from London to New York.

I wasn't expecting this to be another one of these terrorists on a plane movies, I thought it'd be more of a non-stop-action kind of movie, but it turned out better than expected despite the limited setting, and might just be the best movie that takes place aboard a plane I've seen thus for. Con-Air didn't really take place only on a plane... so that one doesn't count.

Script and filmography are equally professional, as is the acting, as is the secrecy with which the whole thing is carried out. Usually in movies like this the terrorists jump up and take people hostage, and you're just waiting for the hero to somehow outmaneuver them - the methods of which vary in creativity and variation, but in this movie it's the other way around. The main character is the one at a disadvantage, and the villains are nowhere to be found. Or are they? Who is who? It's like an air-bound game of clue. Great movie.

 rated 4/5: fo shizzle