Overview: In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Academy Award® nominee Mark Wahlberg (Actor in a Supporting Role, 2006 -- The Departed) plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

Verdict: Mel Gibson’s career has been quite remarkable. Coming very young off the success of the original Mad Max worldwide, the actor then went to Hollywood, where he became a movie star, and a respected film director, only to fumble under nasty declarations and political matters that put him on Hollywood’s blacklist.

However, it is undeniable that Gibson is immensely talented, and we expect a lot from him because he has given us greatness before. Sadly, Flight Risk is not the greatness we and he deserve.

From a script point of view, the film delivers quite an interesting and delightful premise that reminds us of Agatha Christie’s mystery thrillers, trying to find who is who and who will do what and when. These types of stories are pretty entertaining, and writers and filmmakers have made a career out of them.

Just look at what Rian Johnson is doing at Netflix with his Knives Out films, and yet, these stories, while fun, need to be well-researched and planned unless you want to make the audience angry.

Nowadays, audiences are very intelligent, media savvy, and can detect and predict many things happening at all times. While being unpredictable is great, it shouldn’t be the end goal of a film or story because even when a story is very predictable, audiences will forgive it or don’t care if it is well executed.

In the case of Flight Risk, the execution falls short for several reasons, including tone, acting, and not being committed enough to be what it should be: a thriller.

The script tries to assign too many things to too many characters, and while it works for some of them, you can definitely see that there are many characters who don’t serve a purpose or are even interesting. This creates the sensation that the film is wasting the audience’s time, and not being committed enough to the genre avoids giving the story the punch it needs to connect with audiences.