There appeared to be some promise with Flight Risk — Mark Wahlberg plays a villain role in a contained action/thriller that at 90 minutes long is pretty much taking place in real time. However, in actuality, it may have been more entertaining to simply raw dog this plane ride than see the thin story, half-baked characters and minimal action that makes this one an outright bore.
Flight Risk follows US Marshal Madolyn Harris (Michelle Dockery) as she is tasked with transporting a reluctant government witness, Winston (Topher Grace), from the Alaskan wilderness so he can appear in court to testify against a powerful crime boss. They have to take a small propeller plane piloted by a freelance pilot (Mark Wahlberg) to make it in time, but they soon learn that the pilot is not who he says he is, putting all of their lives at risk. Mel Gibson directed the movie with a script from Jared Rosenberg.
