Zero stars “Flight Risk” sounds like the setup for a joke: What do you get when you put a U.S. Marshal, a fugitive and an unhinged pilot in a small plane? We don't know
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Before you accuse me of spoiling the movie, did you really not see any of this coming? I think you will be surprised that Mel Gibson directs this film. It’s almost like he’s sharpening his directing skills (since Heartbreak Ridge) in preparation for a much bigger film.
Despite seemingly giving away the entire movie in the trailer, the action thriller managed to keep a few things up its sleeve.
Everyone in the movie isn’t flying in the same direction and the tone is all over the place. Brutal shootings and cuffed beatdowns mix with terrible puns and jokes at the expense of Spirit Airlines.
An accountant, (you know he is an accountant because he wears glasses) Winston (Topher Grace), is hiding out ... charters a plane to fly Winston to Anchorage and, further on, to New York and ...
Mel Gibson steps back into the director's chair for Flight Risk. View the odds for Flight Risk's opening weekend box office haul
Reading more like a play than a movie script, "Flight Risk" puts three actors in a plane with a psycho Mark Wahlberg on the loose. Mel Gibson directs.