Saturday 23 August 2014

Non-Stop Movie Review & Film Summary (2014)


Non-Stop
Director : Jaume Collet-Serra
Genre : Action,thriller
Producer : Joel Silver
Writer : John W. Richardson
Music Director : John Ottman
Releasing On : 28 February 2014 
Plot

Bill Marks is an alcoholic U.S. federal air marshal; he enrolled in the Air Marshal service after he was discharged from the police force. On a Boeing 767 non-stop flight from New York to London aboard British Aqualantic Flight 10, midway over the Atlantic Ocean, Marks receives text messages on his secure phone stating that someone on the plane will die every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into a specific bank account.

Breaking protocol, Marks consults with Jack Hammond, the other air marshal on the flight. Hammond is revealed to be smuggling cocaine in a briefcase and following an altercation Marks ends up killing him in a lavatory. This occurs exactly at the 20 minute mark, resulting in the first death. As Marks attempts to stall for time with the texter, he works with Nancy Hoffman, a flight attendant, and Jen Summers, a passenger seated next to Marks, to discover the texter's identity. When the time runs out again, the captain suddenly dies of poisoning.

The public becomes convinced that Marks is hijacking the plane, as the bank account is in his name and a passenger uploads video footage of him treating passengers aggressively with no explanation. Co-pilot Kyle Rice has been instructed by the TSA to ignore Marks and land in Iceland, the closest destination; he diverts the plane but continues to cautiously trust Marks. Cell phone programmer Zack White is asked by Marks to design a hack which will cause the texter's cell phone to ring. It is discovered in the pocket of a passenger, who claims to have never seen the phone before. Following a fight with Marks, the passenger dies in a similar fashion to the captain.

In the lavatory, Marks finds a hole in the wall that allowed someone to shoot a poison dart at the captain; he finds that the deceased passenger was struck with a dart as well. While Marks and Summers try to gain access to the texter's phone, it suddenly activates, sending automated messages to TSA implying that Marks is suicidal and is going to detonate a bomb on the plane.

Initial release: January 27, 2014 (Paris)
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Running time: 110 minutes
Initial DVD release: June 10, 2014 (USA)
Screenplay: Ryan Engle, John W. Richardson, Christopher Roach

Filming

Filming began on November 1, 2012 at York Studios in Maspeth, Queens, New York City, at JFK Airport on December 7, 2012, and at Long Island MacArthur Airport. This was the inaugural movie filmed at York Studios.

Box office

The film opened in 3,090 theaters in the United States and Canada. It grossed $10 million on opening day and was ranked #1 at the end of weekend with $28.9 million, ahead of former box office leader The Lego Movie and the new release Son of God.(Watch Online Non Stop Movie)

The film earned $91.7 million at the North American box office. In other markets it took in an additional $107,000,000, for a total of $199 million worldwide. Its budget for making the film was $50 million.

No comments:

Post a Comment