Non-Stop (2013)
Mysterious emotional thriller about a woman who, after being left at the altar, has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane which ultimately puts her – and everyone else on the flight – in terrible danger.
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Simply Perfect
Load of rubbish!!
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Lacey Chabert does her best with a terrible script, but nothing can save this movie. Terrible editing, weird directing, wooden acting by many of the other actors and a completely ridiculous plot. The only reason it doesn't get a one is because Ms. Chabert is actually quite good for much of the movie. Ms. Chabert, who is always likable on screen, makes it almost worth watching, but unfortunately, by the finale of the movie, even that's not enough. Without spoiling anything, the last twenty minutes or so of the movie are beyond bad - the movie enters crazytown - first there's a scene with the oddest cinematography, followed by a series of ridiculous plot points, followed by an ending that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.It would be nice to see Ms. Chabert in something with a decent plot and a solid ensemble.
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)
Lacey Chabert is good in this film, which kept me intrigued almost to the end.But I couldn't take "Non-Stop" seriously once I realized that Amy was not who she appeared, by a long-shot, though that plot strategy worked OK for others in the story.Too much time is wasted here trying to raise suspense with bit players like the bartender, loony spiritualist lady, gassy traveling salesman, and creepy little girl. And I'd have appreciated far fewer examples of the stewardess's inner Nazi (OK, I get that she's a bitch!). "Non-Stop" is derivative of a movie several years back, also not that great, in which Jodie Foster loses her daughter on a trans-Atlantic flight. Without having looked at the writers' names, I'd bet they are male. It doesn't ring true for Amy's flame-haired friend to push her so assiduously toward a one-night stand when she's heartbroken over a failed marriage plan.Some of the ideas here worked all right, but overall I think the writers were trying too hard. Just tell the story, with fewer fireworks, and trust the audience to care!
In this film we ope with a crusty Professor type who has just announced the soon-to-be published, tell-all, political conspiracy plot with accurate tell- all types abounding that will blow the lid off the geopolitics of the world. The plot of this book made no sense whatsoever. The professor's assistant is Lacey Chabert constantly trying to walk, run, hobble everyone in these way-too high cumbersome heels. She is persuaded to come downstairs and then that's when the maximum overdrive of crazy, implausibility, and plain old-fashioned piano party fun and mayhem ensue. There's a screaming British dude who claims that the Professor is Hitler. There's a plane trip to Zurich, with Lacey on a one- way ticket to WTF that involves a proverbial 30,000 mile-high case of Clue: 1) The mean drunk flight attendant , and 2) the trust-fund sculpture dude, turned flight attendant, who kind of likes Lacey (they are the only two flight attendants on a jumbo jet); 3) the stranger who happens to have even more drugs that don't have the FDA stamp of approval so they are extra potent – guess who pops one? Lacey Chabert our druggie heroine; 5) The Brit dude who seems a bit of a dimwit "there's more where I came from" – o.k. we can only hope; 6) An Interpol agent, and 7) more people on the jumbo jet who are annoyed when Lacey runs around on those stupid heels looking for the mystery guy who kissed her on the flight then, disappears, along with expensive diamond ring.You don't need cards and Colonel Mustard to tell you this is a film riddled with plot holes, moments of hilarity, and plain old "HUH?" Cheers!