Mel Gibson’s chamber thriller Flight Risk is thin at 3,000 feet, but Topher Grace makes for good in-flight entertainment.

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

Mark Wahlberg's assassin attempts to bump off Topher Grace's informant mid-flight in Mel Gibson's thriller. Read the Empire review.

In "Flight Risk," Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace star in what Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy calls a truly forgettable thriller-comedy.

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.

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 ...

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,

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.

At least Dockery gets out relatively unscathed with her perfectly rootable heroine that keeps this movie above the “D” level. Everything else about this movie wishes it could pass for average. The dialogue is below average.

Despite the interesting premise, the unrelatable cast and insubstantial plot left the film to nose-dive into boredom.

Director Mel Gibson probably made Flight Risk with Netflix’s “90-minute movies” slot in mind (in fact he overshot – it lasts 91 minutes). It hits the spot of “escapist no-brainer action flick” by being lean,

Despite seemingly giving away the entire movie in the trailer, the action thriller managed to keep a few things up its sleeve.