FLIGHT RISK

Winston (Topher Grace) is an accountant for a mob boss in New York. On the lam, he's picked up in Alaska by U.S. Marshall Madolyn (Michelle Dockery). They charter a private plane from podunk Alaska to Seattle where they can transfer Winston back to New York in order to testify against his former employer. The pilot with the southern drawl is Daryl (Mark Wahlberg), however, he's not who he seems as he's been sent by Winston's former boss in order to kill him to prevent him from testifying. Although, this isn't made clear until they're 3,000 feet in the air and no one outside of Winston knows how to fly. The premise is simple enough and the marketing team did their job, planting enough seeds for me to board this flight. However, once airborne, outside of a few pockets of turbulence, it was an uneventful flight. Once Daryl is revealed to not be who he claims to be, the story actually slows down with Madolyn in charge of attempting to land the plane safely. Topher Grace provides quite a few quips to break up the tension but outside of Wahlberg's southern drawl, which he pulls off for the most part here, there isn't much here unfortunately. Another reason why I took a ride with these 3 is because director Mel Gibson has impressed me before with his directorial duties but here he falls short as this is framed as a white knuckle thrill ride but sadly it's not. 5.5/10