Flight Risk

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Flight Risk

R

2025

1h 30m

Mystery & Thriller

Action

Drama

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In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Academy Award® nominee Mark Wahlberg (Actor in a Supporting Role, 2006 -- The Departed) plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

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Critics Consensus

While there's a place for high-octane dumb fun, Flight Risk dives straight into unpleasant camp without a parachute.

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Kat Sachs

Chicago Reader

02/13/2025

The plot and runtime had me hoping it’d be a throwaway of the Edgar G. Ulmer variety, but alas, it’s kind of a mess, made worse by the Mark Wahlberg character’s indiscriminate sadism.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

02/11/2025

A really cool idea, but the dialogue is terrible. I hate this script so much... There's a crassness that is really unnecessary.

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Ian Freer

Empire Magazine

02/04/2025

3/5

It won’t win any awards for originality but Flight Risk is a fun, unpretentious, tight 91 minutes — especially if you’ve always jonesed to see Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary cream someone with a fire extinguisher.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

Jan 1

Yes, there’s a solid piece of misdirection and nice double-double cross, but it’s hard to take the main antagonist seriously when does creepy things with twist ties and confesses to having "made a Jackson Pollock in my pants".

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John Stark

Mac the Movie Guy

Dec 24

31/100

We can take his life, but we can’t ever take his freedom to direct tripe like Flight Risk.

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Maxance Vincent

FlickSided

Jul 25

1.5/5

For a good chunk of [Flight Risk's] lean 91-minute runtime, no frame feels like Mel Gibson directed it, but rather a journeyman who kowtows to the studio’s demands with little to no personal flair behind the camera.

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Jessica G

Nov 22

This was way better than I thought it was going to be. It's been forever since Mark Wahlberg played the bad guy & I enjoyed every bit of it. He played his character so well that by the end of the movie everyone was cheering.....IYKYK! 😆

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Colton

Aug 11

Great movie! Had me on the edge of my seat.

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David G

Jul 2

Not bad. Fun 90s Throwback feel

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Matthew

Jun 25

I would watch it again but I hated that the ending came to a quick close.

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JP

May 24

Didn’t care for the movie. Stalls at times, predictable and not a very good plot.

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Derrick R

May 12

Not enough action it’s ok

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Synopsis

In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Academy Award® nominee Mark Wahlberg (Actor in a Supporting Role, 2006 -- The Departed) plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

Director: Mel Gibson
Producer: John Davis, John Fox, Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson
Screenwriter: Jared Rosenberg
Distributor: Lionsgate
Production Co: Media Capital Technologies, Davis Entertainment, Hammerstone Studios, Icon Productions
Rating: R (Violence and Language)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 24, 2025, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 14, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $29.7M
Runtime: 1h 30m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1