Mel back in the director's chair for the first time in a while. Looks decent!
Mel Gibson's FLIGHT RISK - October
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Re: Mel Gibson's FLIGHT RISK - October
Mark Wahlberg with sides will take some getting used to... 
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AndyDursin
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Re: Mel Gibson's FLIGHT RISK - October
Hilarious. Wish they hadn't given it away in the trailer though (what can you do, they give it ALL away these days!).
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Re: Mel Gibson's FLIGHT RISK - October
91-minute running time. Hey, I'm all for short-assed genre movies, but that, coupled with pushing it to January, and...
Hey, I'm all for short-assed genre movies, but that, coupled with pushing it to January, and...-
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Re: Mel Gibson's FLIGHT RISK - October
Yeah, I'm good with not going out in the middle of winter for a 90 minute Lionsgate release (meaning it's probably 80 minutes long) that will be $5 for the 4K stream in a matter of months or weeks.
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Re: Mel Gibson's FLIGHT RISK - October
No reviews either lol
Things must be REALLY bad when Showcase is spending $$ on local radio ads trying to get people to show up for this movie. "Mark Wahlberg in FLIGHT RISK! Buy your tickets today!" 
Things must be REALLY bad when Showcase is spending $$ on local radio ads trying to get people to show up for this movie. "Mark Wahlberg in FLIGHT RISK! Buy your tickets today!"
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Re: Mel Gibson's FLIGHT RISK - October
5/10
Mel Gibson directing a 91-minute January dump-thriller has the depressing "This is all I can get" quality as Cate Blanchett's Lydia Tar conducting a symphony of video game music in Japan. Flight Risk isn't inept, exactly, just lacking in serious tension, and with comic relief from the ageless Topher Grace that's cloddish and generally obnoxious. At least it's brisk. Wahlberg snarls, spits and mugs his way through a villain turn that's never once genuinely threatening (he was scarier in Fear almost thirty years ago), and while Gibson directs the movie effectively enough given the limitations of shooting a movie that takes place 90% inside of a light aircraft cabin, the weak special effects and Antonio Pinto's grating "music" (which, incredibly, required three "additional music" assistants!) do it no favors. Only Michelle Dockery suggests a character with more than one dimension, and she can't hold the center the way a more recognizable actress would.
Mel Gibson directing a 91-minute January dump-thriller has the depressing "This is all I can get" quality as Cate Blanchett's Lydia Tar conducting a symphony of video game music in Japan.
Flight Risk isn't inept, exactly, just lacking in serious tension, and with comic relief from the ageless Topher Grace that's cloddish and generally obnoxious. At least it's brisk. Wahlberg snarls, spits and mugs his way through a villain turn that's never once genuinely threatening (he was scarier in Fear almost thirty years ago), and while Gibson directs the movie effectively enough given the limitations of shooting a movie that takes place 90% inside of a light aircraft cabin, the weak special effects and Antonio Pinto's grating "music" (which, incredibly, required three "additional music" assistants!) do it no favors. Only Michelle Dockery suggests a character with more than one dimension, and she can't hold the center the way a more recognizable actress would.