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Movie Review: FLIGHT RISK (2025)
Whether laughing at it or with it, it's never boring
Smiling through!
Low-budget thriller submits three characters and a chroma key in search of a landing strip. Deputy U.S. Marshal Harris (Michelle Dockery) hires the services of a flyboy cum hitman (Mark Wahlberg, constantly showing his hand) to pilot an AWOL mob accountant (Topher Grace) to Anchorage en route to testify against his former boss. It’s not the unashamed B-movie inanities pumping lifeblood into the head-to-tail flight that suck the oxygen out of the cabin, but director Mel Gibson’s insistence on having both male leads speak with the same voice: his. Grace and Wahlberg don’t make characters so much as they break them. Their chatterbox dueling comic relief, more than anything, adds unwanted ballast. Once proven she could swim with the big boys, Dockery proceeded to drown the competition. Whether laughing at it or with it — anyone who has felt the frustration of being outsourced has to chuckle when they hear the voice talking Harris down from the control tower is that of Pakistani actor Maaz Ali — it’s never boring. I haven’t liked a Gibson film since that fateful night when he told the arresting officer, “the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” Let’s not make a habit of this. **
Here's something you might be interested in.
Movie Review: FLIGHT RISK (2025)
Whether laughing at it or with it, it's never boring
Movie Review: FLIGHT RISK (2025)
Whether laughing at it or with it, it's never boring
Smiling through!
Low-budget thriller submits three characters and a chroma key in search of a landing strip. Deputy U.S. Marshal Harris (Michelle Dockery) hires the services of a flyboy cum hitman (Mark Wahlberg, constantly showing his hand) to pilot an AWOL mob accountant (Topher Grace) to Anchorage en route to testify against his former boss. It’s not the unashamed B-movie inanities pumping lifeblood into the head-to-tail flight that suck the oxygen out of the cabin, but director Mel Gibson’s insistence on having both male leads speak with the same voice: his. Grace and Wahlberg don’t make characters so much as they break them. Their chatterbox dueling comic relief, more than anything, adds unwanted ballast. Once proven she could swim with the big boys, Dockery proceeded to drown the competition. Whether laughing at it or with it — anyone who has felt the frustration of being outsourced has to chuckle when they hear the voice talking Harris down from the control tower is that of Pakistani actor Maaz Ali — it’s never boring. I haven’t liked a Gibson film since that fateful night when he told the arresting officer, “the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” Let’s not make a habit of this. **
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