synopsis novel dan film 'NON STOP'

Synopsis
Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) sits in his SUV at an airport drinking whiskey and arguing with someone on the phone. He wearily goes to the departure gates, and has a smoke, while eying the passengers. A man stands beside him and asks for a light and mentions he is going to Amsterdam. Bill refuses to make small talk. At the X-ray lineup Bill loses patience with another passenger, Zack White (Nate Parker), and brushes past. Bill helps a young girl, Becca, board the plane. He takes a seat in business class beside White, on British Aquatlantic Flight 10 to London. A woman, Jen Summers, (Julianne Moore) asks anyone to trade her aisle for a window seat, White agrees to switch. She sits beside Bill and starts chatting, asking about his family. The plane takes off, Bill nervously grips the chair and clutches a blue ribbon,

Midway over the Atlantic Ocean, Marks gets text messages on his secure phone stating that someone on the plane will die every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into a specific bank account. Breaking protocol, Marks consults with Jack Hammond (Anson Mount) the other air marshal on the flight. Hammond tells him it is a joke and to forget it. Bill reports to the pilot then watches the cabin cameras with flight attendant Nancy (Michelle Dockery) and Jen Summers. As he engages the text messager the woman scan for people also texting. There are 5 or 6 and Bill notes the names on the manifest. The last is Hammond who gets up and goes to the rear. Bill follows. They enter a lavatory and begins arguing, Hammond says he needs the money and starts fighting with Bill. He pulls out a gun but Bill manages to disarm him. The fight is fierce but Bill eventually gets the upper hand, placing Hammond in a reverse headlock. Hammond reaches for a gun on the floor while Bills pleads him not to do it. Hammond refuses to listen and slowly aims the gun at Bill, forcing him to break Hammonds neck. This occurs exactly at the 20 minute mark, resulting in the first death. Bill closes the door and returns to the flight deck. He tells the pilot to contact the TSA with the info.

Now Marks has the lights on and announces to everyone a surprise inspection. He goes to each texter and checks their phones and pats them down. One is an NYPD cop, Reilly (Corey Stoll) Bill then notices the man,Tom Bowen ( Scoot McNairy), from the sidewalk at the airport, he roughly brings him to the rear galley, demanding to know why he lied about Amsterdam. Marks binds his hands with duct tape and puts him in a seat. Making his way forward the plane lurches downward. In the cockpit the pilot is having a seizure. Marks gets a Muslim doctor passenger to help but it is too late. When 20 minutes runs out again, Captain David McMillan (Linus Roache) dies of poisoning.

The public becomes convinced that Marks is hijacking the plane, as the bank account is in his name and a passenger has uploaded video footage of him treating passengers aggressively with no explanation. Co-pilot Kyle Rice has been instructed by TSA to ignore Marks and land in Iceland, the closest destination; he diverts the plane but continues to cautiously trust Marks. Bill finds that Hammond was carrying a briefcase full of white powder. Jen explains to Marks that passenger Zack White is a smartphone programmer. Marks has White design a hack which will cause the texter's cell phone to ring. Again forcing all passengers to sit with their hands up Bill rings the phone, he discovers it in the pocket of a passenger, who claims to have never seen the cell phone before. Taking him to the front galley Bill again roughs the man up, but the passenger dies in a similar fashion to the pilot.

Perplexed, and smoking in the lavatory, Marks finds a hole in the wall that allowed someone to an opening behind the pilot's seat; he finds that the most recently deceased passenger was struck with a mini dart. While Marks and Summers try to gain access to the texter's cell phone, it suddenly activates, sending automated messages to TSA implying that Marks is suicidal and is going to detonate a bomb on the plane. Marks finds the bomb hidden in the cocaine smuggled by Hammond. Meanwhile Reilly convinces some other passengers to subdue Marks. After a brief fight they have Marks pinned, but Bowen picks up the loose gun and has the others release him, then gives the gun back to Bill. Marks finally explains the situation to everyone and they agree to work with him. He attempts to initiate a protocol of least damage: by bringing the plane to 8,000 feet to equalize air pressure, placing the bomb in the rear of the plane, covering it with baggage and moving the passengers to the front in order to contain the explosion and minimize casualties. Bill starts to think this is not about the money at all, with only a few minutes before the bomb explodes.

Watching a video clip of himself roughing up the passengers, Marks notices Bowen slipping the texter's phone into the pocket of the second poison victim. Realizing that Bowen is the culprit, Marks engages him in a fight, and then Bowen explains he was appalled by the lack of security at U.S. airports before 9/11, hoping that framing Marks as a terrorist will lead to drastically increased security. His accomplice is Zack, who prepares a parachute. Bowen is prepared to die with the plane and shoots White, who expected to get off the plane with the money. The co-pilot dives the plane to 8000 feet, In the confusion Marks shoots Bowen in the head. White recovers and attacks Marks with a knife, but White dies in the explosion as Marks retreats to the front of the plane.

The co-pilot manages an emergency crash-landing at a military base in Iceland after the bomb explodes, disregarding orders from his fighter plane escort. the plane is damaged in the landing but there are no casualties, Marks and Summers save Becca. His TSA boss calls and apologizes and asks for the money back. Marks is hailed as a hero in the media, and the film ends with him and Summers beginning their friendship/romance.

Plot

Film Summary
Scoot McNairy as Tom Bowen
Michelle Dockery as Nancy
Anson Mount as Jack Hammond
Lupita Nyong'o as Gwen
Corey Stoll as Austin
Linus Roache as David McMillan
Jon Abrahams as David Norton

Director
Jaume Collet-Serra

Screenplay
John W. Richardson
Christopher Roach

Theme: Action, Mystery, Thriller

If "Non-Stop" proves anything, besides confirming that 61-year-old Liam Neeson is not going to be knocked off his perch as the elder statesman of B-movie tough guys any time soon, it’s that snakes on a plane have nothing on texts on a plane when it comes to in-flight annoyances.
If I wanted to read my way through a film that features words dancing around the screen as if they were waltzing Post-Its, I would have sat through a foreign movie with subtitles instead.
But what would modern-day thrillers be these days without cell phones as a shorthand way to advance the plot and reduce the need for any actual clever repartee between characters? Especially when the clock is ticking down the minutes until something either goes boo or boom.
Certainly, this mile-high action flick would barely get off the ground without such technological aids, considering its premise is as reliant on Miss Marple mysteries—specifically, the gathering of potential perpetrators who conform to certain types—as it is on digital devices.
The rather ingenious if preposterous premise, one that only goes way off course in the heavy-handed third act: Neeson’s burned-out alcoholic air marshal struggles to find the fellow passenger aboard his New York-to-London flight who has sent him anonymous messages threatening that someone on the plane will be killed every 20 minutes until $150 million is deposited in a special account.
As most frequent flyers, know there are rules about phone use once you leave the gate. But ignoring such regulations is just one of the reasons "Non-Stop" is so ridiculously entertaining in spite of its occasional lapses in real-world logic. Nicotine addicts might vicariously appreciate how Neeson’s Bill Marks disables the smoke detector in the lavatory—duct tape is the key—so he can puff away while aloft with impunity. Others may be awed by how our grizzled hero takes advantage of the narrow confines of that same bathroom to efficiently pulverize an attacker to death.
Director Jaume Collet-Serra and veteran producer Joel Silver ("The Matrix" franchise, "Die Hard" and "Die Hard 2"), who both previously teamed with Neeson on 2011’s "Unknown", happily settle for economy-class storytelling. They know that their not-so-gentle giant of a star will emote just enough to keep the audience satisfied as he forcefully strides through the aisles and shouts orders in his resonant Irish burr. They also know how to humanize him, as Neeson kindly reassures the mandatory unaccompanied minor, a blonde moppet with stuffed animal in tow.
They do, however, indulge in upgrades when it comes to the supporting cast—most suspicious characters in their own special way. Many are over-qualified for the assignment, similar to the way stage legend Helen Hayes played a little old lady stowaway in 1970's "Airport". Rest assured none will be winning an Oscar like Hayes did for her ride in the sky, but attaching themselves to the coattails of a late-career box-office titan like Neeson is a reward in itself.
Look, there's "Downton Abbey"'s Lady Mary—Michelle Dockery—as the main flight attendant (I kept wishing she would pull a Karen Black and commandeer the cockpit, but there is always the possible sequel). That bald NYPD cop who keeps grousing? Corey Stoll from Netflix's "House of Cards". And isn't that Scoot McNairy of "Argo" as the skinny nervous guy with glasses?
And what about four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore as an over-stressed businesswoman who is lucky enough to be seated next to a grimacing Neeson? And, speaking of Academy Awards, current supporting actress nominee Lupita Nyong’o of "12 Years a Slave", who spouts barely five lines on camera in a fetching British accent, is Lady Mary's fellow attendant. There is also a Muslim doctor (racial profiling opportunity, naturally) and a nerdy black computer specialist for added diversity.
The twist, which is revealed in the trailer, is that the terrorist mastermind behind this stunt has figured out a way to manipulate matters so that Neeson's disgruntled marshal appears to be a hijacker holding everyone hostage. It doesn't help that he keeps waving his gun and roughing up the passengers while increasing the ever-present post-9/11 levels of paranoia. In one of several welcome comic-relief moments, as the passengers appear ready to mutiny against their supposed captor, Neeson suddenly offers everyone free international travel for a year on behalf of the airline.

If it saddens anyone that the Oscar-nominated Nazi fighter in "Schindler’s List" is employing his skills as an amateur boxer these days more than his flair for the dramatic to make a living, worry not. Neeson shows he has still got it as the voice of the wee swivel-headed figure known as Bad Cop/Good Cop in "The Lego Movie", a role that allows him to be less plastic than he is in "Non-Stop".