# Non-Stop (AKA "Taken Plane") Starring Liam Neeson **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187 "2014-07-02T13:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/1 "2014-07-02T13:40:30Z")
There was no thread back when it was in theaters, but I just got the Blu-ray and I continue to love Neeson’s old man action hero stuff. SPOILER WARNING FOR MOUSEOVER FOLK SPOILER WARNING FOR MOUSEOVER FOLK SPOILER WARNING FOR MOUSEOVER FOLK SPOILER WARNING FOR MOUSEOVER FOLK [spoiler]I gotta say, I suspected almost everyone except for Zack the programmer. And I even considered that someone might have stuffed some kind of transmitter in the little girl’s bear. I love when the whodunit isn’t obvious. Definitely a good movie, but I was a bit irritated at the end when the schoolteacher bomber said they were doing it to prove how lax the USA’s plane security was. “It was so easy!” he yelled… and then he described the most convoluted series of events ever.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/2 "2014-07-02T15:04:54Z")
I liked it. Very suspenseful! Only a few places that made me roll my eyes. To aid my suspension of disbelief, I figure the bad guy had several options at each stage. Like, if Neeson didn’t kill his fellow air marshal in the lavatory, then the villain would have killed a passenger, to keep the timetable. So we just saw one possible path of the plan. Otherwise the ‘plan’ is more convoluted, more dependent on people doing _exactly_ the right thing at the right time, and generally as impossible as the one in _Skyfall._ ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/3 "2014-07-02T15:09:05Z")
I thought it was a very fun thriller. The perfect Neesons movie. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/4 "2014-07-02T15:48:06Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > To aid my suspension of disbelief, I figure the bad guy had several options at each stage. Like, if Neeson didn’t kill his fellow air marshal in the lavatory, then the villain would have killed a passenger, to keep the timetable. So we just saw one possible path of the plan. Once they got onto the plane, the fact that there was two of them means that almost any plan is pretty plausible. It’s all the pre-plane setup that had me going, “Really?” ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/5 "2014-07-02T15:58:50Z")
Why didn’t they call it “Takes on a Plane”? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/6 "2014-07-02T16:33:22Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Once they got onto the plane, the fact that there was two of them means that almost any plan is pretty plausible. It’s all the pre-plane setup that had me going, “Really?” I agree. I admit I hadn’t fully considered that possibility while watching the movie. I think I may have considered that the fellow air marshal was in on it but killed anyway. That’s asking a lot of any planner to count on having TWO manipulate-able air marshals on the same flight. If the other guy wasn’t smuggling coke, if Neeson wasn’t a drunk, the plan would never have worked. Knowing how movies work, I actually was considering that Neeson was involved, if not running the whole thing. That’s good suspense writing. (Hey, I was surprised by the reveal in _No Way Out_.) As an aside, I liked that there were two _Batman_ actors and two\* Law & Order\* actors on the plane, and one of them was the same guy. Non-stop crossover action. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/7 "2014-07-02T16:46:00Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I thought it was a very fun thriller. The perfect Neesons movie. What about Tooken though? ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/8 "2014-07-02T21:04:35Z")
Great popcorn flick. I always suspect an inside man, so I was suspicious of Julianne Moore the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stop-aka-taken-plane-starring-liam-neeson/692187/9 "2014-07-02T22:23:28Z")
ISTR the one stewardess saying to the other, “Thanks for filling in on such short notice.” Dammit, I thought for sure she was in on it then - nice misdirect.