Liam Neeson’s most recent effort in the once-Oscar-winner-turned-action-hero’s series of gruff federal agent movies, Non-Stop, is quite the failed experiment. The promising airplane thriller unfortunately proved to be an unintentionally campy, often embarrassingly funny shamble of a film with a most ridiculous plot and the most laughable dialogue.
.....Julianne Moore’s character was relegated to a not-quite love interest and not-quite comic relief role, which left her without any real reason to be in the film beyond looking longingly at Neeson and cracking a few one-liners. Reduced to a talking head, her inclusion in the film must have merely been to add another big-name actor to the billing.
Annoying. That’s the best way to sum up Non-Stop. By the end of the movie, I was completely annoyed by the careless lack of character development, coherent dialogue and effort that went into the film. I could smell Collet-Serra’s smugness from 15 rows back in the theater, the smugness of a man who knows he put no effort into this film and still received a fat paycheck. But maybe one of these days Neeson will wise up, act in a movie that deserves his high-caliber performance and put the inept Collet-Serra out of a job.
300: Rise Of An Empire pulled out an estimated $45M this weekend for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures. The film which is traveling around the world now as well, as of today took in $87.8M in 58 markets. The budget for this 3D actioner is said to have been $110M-plus, so currently the studio and Legendary has $132.8M worldwide in just a few days. 300 Rise Of An EmpireIt’s playing equally well between young females and males.
