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January 24, 2025

‘Flight Risk’: Mel Gibson’s New Action Film Is Set Almost Entirely On A Small Aeroplane

The in-flight action suspense thriller takes place almost entirely on a rickety small aeroplane as the cast desperately navigates a dangerous situation above the Alaska wilderness.

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Despite being sin-binned by Hollywood, Mel Gibson’s new action film Flight Risk has been receiving good reviews.

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace, the in-flight action suspense thriller takes place almost entirely on a rickety small aeroplane as the cast desperately navigates a dangerous situation above the Alaska wilderness.

First-time feature screenwriter Jared Rosenberg penned the film, which had reportedly languished on the ‘Black List’ for four years until Mel decided to give it a shot.

Michelle Dockery plays Madelyn, a deputy US air marshal who arrests a bespectacled mob accountant called Winston, played by Topher Grace;  who had been hiding out in a squalid, remote Alaska hotel room. The cringing Winston is persuaded to snitch on his capo paymaster, and so, Madelyn has to transport him to the nearest city for the trial, fully chained up as a flight risk.

The only way of getting him through the snowy wasteland is with an alarmingly tiny plane piloted by the cheerful Daryl Booth, a good ol’ Texan played by Mark Wahlberg.

Obviously, things go awry, and the film has everything a proper action should have, like gunfights, long knives and a gutsy protagonist – only in a tiny plane.

It’s a slightly goofy film as you’ll see from the trailer (which should really carry a spoiler alert warning), but it seems like a fun ride, and at least better than most of the movies currently available on Netflix – This is directed at the horrendous Back in Action, which is appears to be Cameron Diaz’s return to movies, and gets our vote for the worst film of 2025 so far. It is a good example of what happens when you ask ChatGPT to write dialogue, and then repeatedly prompt it to ‘make it dumber’.

But back to Marky Mark and the dodgy aeroplane:

Flight Risk will be released in the US and UK on 24 January.

[Source: Guardian]