Film review: Non-Stop

US Federal Air Marshal Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) boards a busy international flight from New York to London.
By The Newsroom
Published 8th Mar 2014, 20:00 BST
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As the aircraft reaches cruising altitude, Marks receives a series of bizarre and threatening text messages demanding that the airline transfers a ransom of $150m into an off-shore account.

Failure to comply will result in one passenger on the flight being killed every 20 minutes.

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The threats turn out to be genuine and everyone on board becomes a suspect.

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While Captain David McMillan (Linus Roache) and his crew including a ballsy flight attendant named Nancy (Michelle Dockery) attempt to maintain calm in the claustrophobic aircraft, Marks searches for answers.

However, his gung-ho one-man crusade is hampered when authorities discover that the bank account is registered under his name and Marks is branded a terrorist.

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