Flight Risk” is not “plane” awful, it just never gains enough “attitude” to make it interesting. This high-flying tale of an Air Marshall (Michelle Dockery), a captured fugitive (Topher Grace) and a maniacal killer (Mark Wahlberg) has the kind of action and unrealistic banter that would be good enough for an
Mel Gibson’s chamber thriller Flight Risk is thin at 3,000 feet, but Topher Grace makes for good in-flight entertainment.
Mark Wahlberg,Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace star in this truly forgettable thriller-comedy that earns its debut — or dump — in January among similar cinematic dreck. You’ve heard of slow-motion car crashes? Just substitute a plane.
The story is simple enough. Winston (Topher Grace), a bespectacled fugitive with connections to some big bad crime boss, is collared in a remote Alaskan town by steely U.S. Marshal Madelyn ...
Michelle Dockery is much too regal to let this come in her way. But given the thin ground that controversy-prone Gibson is on, he could have avoided this.
Performances aside, Flight Risk commits the nearly unforgivable sin of turning a great thriller premise into laughably convoluted potboiler fare.
Family time at Skirball Center, classic movies on the big screen and dinner at Bavel make up an ideal Sunday for the "Flight Risk" actor.
Although it's mostly set high above the mountains of Alaska, the crime drama
Headlined by the addition of several veteran actors and famous director Mel Gibson, “Flight Risk” released Jan. 24 with the intention of finding great success in an otherwise quiet month of films. It did not.
Although it's mostly set high above the mountains of Alaska, the crime drama "Flight Risk" cannot be said to soar.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I notice that I’ve given a “C” rating to every movie I’ve reviewed in 2025. That’s four straight times I’ve basically said that the movie, while not worth writing off entirely,
I notice that I’ve given a “C” rating to every movie I’ve reviewed in 2025. That’s four straight times I’ve basically said that the movie, while not worth writing off entirely, isn’t worth recommending.