YMMV / Non-Stop (2014)

• Complete Monster: Zack White sends anonymous text messages to Bill Marks demanding $150 million, threatening to kill someone every 20 minutes if the money is not transferred. While his boss, Tom Bowen, is trying to cause a catastrophe that will inspire people to increase air security, Zack is Only in It for the Money. After causing the deaths of three people, the two activate a bomb to blow up the plane and kill everyone on board. Zack goes to get parachutes so he and Tom can escape and leave everyone else to die. Although Zack does try to stop Tom when he learns that Tom planned for them to die on the plane as well, it's only out of concern for his own safety, and after Tom dies, Zack tries to kill Marks to get a parachute, once again attempting to leave the other passengers to their fate.
• Funny Moments: Early at the beginning of the film, Marks' seat is being kicked by a couple sitting behind him making out. At one point, the young man states that no one is watching them. Cut to Marks looking over his seat annoyed.
  • The passengers riot, so Marks promises a year's international flights, courtesy of the company, to anyone who calms down. But since he's making it up on the spot, this offer is mainly gruff shouts on the theme of , "Free! Free travel! One year. Twelve months! Free. Guaranteed. Free," while the passengers grumble back into their seats.
• Harsher in Hindsight: This film is about terrorists hijacking a plane. The film was released in March 2014, about the same time when a Malaysian Airline jet went missing for reasons unknown.
• Magnificent Bastard: Tom Bowen is a Marine set to prove the lack of safety in the American airline security after his father's death during the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack. Taking over a plane with Zach White, he threatens to routinely murder passengers while keeping the heroes at bay and ensures the Transportation Security Administration Agency is informed of the threat presented. Ultimately planning to die when his bomb goes off, his convictions prove his intent truly is to ensure Americans increase security precautions for flights.
• Narm: Marks casually grabbing a pistol as it floats in the air from the plane's erratic movement and beaning Bowen in the head while jumping backwards is pretty cool, but also ridiculous and hard to take seriously when the film up to that point had been fairly grounded.
• Narrowed It Down To The Guy I Recognise: Averted. Despite being the only other big name (at the time) in the movie, Julianne Moore is not the villain.
• Nightmare Fuel: You're the Air Marshal on a plane in the middle of the night. You suddenly start getting mysterious texts, threatening to kill people every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred to a particular bank account. You want to brush it off as nothing, but the 20 minute mark comes along, and people start dying — some of them at your hands. It's incredible that Bill Marks kept it together as well as he did.
• Retroactive Recognition: The irate passenger who keeps complaining about wanting to go to sleep is Corey Hawkins, who would later become famous for playing Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton.
• Rewatch Bonus: At one point, Marks unwittingly lets the two hijackers sit next to each other.
  • After duct-taping Tom's hands together, Bill shoves him into a seat; being a nervous person and possibly worried about being roughed up some more, he belts himself in moments before the pilot dies, sending the plane into a dive.
• Spiritual Adaptation: The whole movie could make a fitting backstory (one of several?) for Liam Neeson's character in Taken.
• Spiritual Successor: Has one in the form of The Commuter. Both star Liam Neeson and are directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and are "Die Hard" on an X movies.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While his overall motive is good, Marks roughs up a few of the innocent passengers and conducts illegal searches on them, causing them to be understandably distrustful of him.

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