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Movie Name: Flight Risk
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, Topher Grace, Monib Abhat, Savanah Joeckel, Atanas Srebrev
Genre: Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Release Date: 24 January, 2025
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Production Companies: Davis Entertainment, Icon Productions, Hammerstone Studios, Flight Risk Films, Media Capital Technologies
Budget: $25 million
A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.
Flight Risk: Movie Overview
Flight Risk is an upcoming American thriller film directed by Mel Gibson and written by Jared Rosenberg. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Topher Grace, and Michelle Dockery.
Movie is scheduled to be released in the United States by Lionsgate Films on 24 January, 2025.
An FBI agent takes an informant to be testified when he is accused of getting involved with a mob boss, only to discover that the pilot who is transporting them is also a hitman that had been sent to assassinate the informant. After they subdue him, they’re forced to fly together after discovering that there are others attempting to eliminate them.
In December 2020, Jared Rosenberg’s screenplay Flight Risk was voted onto the year’s “Black List” of the most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. In May 2023, it was reported that Mel Gibson would direct and Mark Wahlberg would star. In January 2024, Topher Grace and Michelle Dockery joined the cast.
Principal photography began in Las Vegas in June 2023. Filming occurred for two days in Mesquite, Nevada in July 2023. Filming also took place in Alaska. SAG-AFTRA granted the filmmakers approval to allow filming during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Filming concluded in August 2023.
Movie Trailer:
Movie Review:
Mark Wahlberg cruises along on silly thrills
Mel Gibson has manic fun with the somewhat efficient high-altitude action movie
The title sounds like a film from the ‘90s and so does the premise. At 91 minutes, Flight Risk is an efficient little campy thriller that mostly delivers what it promises. Even with the short run time, there are moments when one’s attention flags, but then one can jump right back into the movie and none is the wiser.
An accountant, (you know he is an accountant because he wears glasses) Winston (Topher Grace), is hiding out in a sketchy motel in Alaska watching his cup noodles go round and round in the micro, which has to be smacked on the side to get it going. If you do not fully believe it is the Alaskan wilderness, a morose moose with gargantuan antlers peeping through the curtains should convince you. The door slams open, and two hefty officers with a US Marshall, Madelyn (Michelle Dockery), walk in. Winston immediately surrenders saying he is willing to testify against the mob boss he is working for in exchange for total immunity and protection.
That sets the stage for the next act, where Madelyn charters a plane to fly Winston to Anchorage and, further on, to New York and Seattle so he can testify and bring down the wicked mob boss. The little Cessna is contrary to Winston’s dreams of a Lear Jet, as is the gum-chewing, brash pilot, Daryl Booth (Mark Wahlberg). Once in the air, on the 90-minute flight to Anchorage, truth, lies, deceit and double cross fly thick and fast as everyone is hiding something and definitely are not what they claim to be. Madelyn has a dark secret and the events on the plane suggest a mole in the department.
While other movies set on planes, including Air Force One, are set in big aircraft, the wee plane in Flight Risk works to keep the tension. There are the near misses, looming mountain ranges, loss of radio contact, stabbings, gunplay, foul language, screams and rants as well as disembodied voices from the ATC to move things along.
Wahlberg has the time of his life as the duplicitous pilot while Dockery drops her cut-glass Lady Mary (Downton Abbey) voice to do a fair version of an American accent. Grace does a good impression of fearful, fretful.
Maaz Ali as Hasan, at the ATC, helping Madelyn fly and land the plane, (which seems super easy to do) is warm and witty and when we finally see him, like Madelyn, we greet him as an old friend. There is that little bit of gore as expected from a Mel Gibson movie and other awful things hinted at as having happened off-camera.
Flight Risk does not overstay its welcome — just when one is shifting uncomfortably and thinking of asking Johnny from Airplane! for coffee, the landing lights come on and after one more heart-stopping burst of action, one can put back the tray tables, unbuckle the seatbelt, switch on the mobile phone and head for the food court for more greasy comestibles.
