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.

| Feb 13, 2025

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

| Feb 11, 2025

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2025

There are a few mildly ingenious twists and contrivances, but overall, it’s all cynically functional, hair’s-breadth mid-air escapes and all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2025

It is catastrophically bad.

| Feb 1, 2025

Flight Risk, directed by Mel Gibson, is a B movie that stretches its plot to the limit and manages to pull a mostly entertaining ride out of a seemingly dead- end premise.

| Jan 30, 2025

“Flight Risk” lacks aspiration and chugs predictably along like a cut-rate actioner that would be better landing at home on a streamer.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 29, 2025

Slipshod clichés and bouts of tedium abound in this bafflingly dated effort from Mel Gibson.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2025

Stripped back to essentials. Everything, that is, except for Wahlberg’s performance, which is so enormous and overblown that it practically needs its own air freight carrier. Very silly, but pulpy fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2025

Gibson botches the assignment at every turn. You needn’t harbor any contempt for the disgraced filmmaker to peg Flight Risk as cheap and choppy heckle fodder.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 24, 2025

Anyway, it’s also weird to find a mediocre straight-to-DVD action movie inside of a major movie theater, instead of in the bargain bin at a Big Lots in 2010.

| Jan 24, 2025

The lean 90-minute runtime is a very tempting sell for a lean chamber piece like this. But what happens in that 90 minutes has to actually entertain, which is where “Flight Risk” runs into some real turbulence.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 24, 2025

"Flight Risk" has all of the ingredients for a tight little thriller except one. Sloppy direction from Mel Gibson interferes with the best the film has to offer.

| Original Score: C | Jan 24, 2025

Director Mel Gibson delivers is a crude, unimaginative, suspenseless adventure whose tension mostly derives from deciding which of its three main characters will prove the most unlikable by the time it ends.

| Jan 23, 2025

The equivalent of a suspenseful Spirit Airlines commercial...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2025

Flight Risk has its funny moments, though none of them are funnier than when the end credits start and you’re reminded, once again, that this movie was directed by Mel Gibson.

| Original Score: C | Jan 23, 2025

No one emerges unscathed from this funny-when-it-shouldn’t-be mess. The movie’s slogan is the weird “Y’all Need a Pilot?” but it should be “Y’all Need a Filmmaker?”

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 23, 2025

Mel Gibson’s risible new movie, “Flight Risk,” takes off with a splash of toilet humour before nosediving into the realm of the ridiculous.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 23, 2025

A C-grade thriller that is further dumbed down to dunce-cap calibre, Flight Risk might have worked as an enjoyably grimy piece of genre trash had Gibson not made every single wrong directorial decision along the way.

| Jan 23, 2025

There are a few mildly ingenious twists and contrivances, but overall, it’s all cynically functional, hair’s-breadth mid-air escapes and all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 23, 2025