Flight Risk

2025
15
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

5.3/10

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A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

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A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

22K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

164

See production info at IMDbPro

Hassan
(voice)

Paul Ben-Victor

Coleridge

Eilise Patton

Janine
(as Eilise Guilfoyle)

Senor Pablo

Bush Pilot

Savanah Joeckel

Rescue Worker #1

Mark Schotz

Rescue Worker #2
(as Mark 'Cowboy' Schotz)

Monib Abhat

Hassan

Milko Kadikov

Milko D'Killa

Georgi S. Georgiev

Jeff (State Trooper #2)
(uncredited)

Atanas Srebrev

State Trooper #1
(uncredited)

Director
- Mel Gibson
Writer
- Jared Rosenberg
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Storyline

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Trivia
The production was shot in 22 days and Mel Gibson himself expressed he was surprised when the final running time clocked in at merely 91 minutes, making this his shortest-directed film.

Goofs
During the plane flight, they have to communicate via the headsets as they can't hear each other over the noise of the engines. After the first fight, they stop using headsets and can hear each other talking perfectly fine.

The headsets are necessary to communicate with the ground via radio, and they cancel out outside noise. However, they're not necessary to communicate inside the airplane.

Quotes
Pilot: Y'all need a pilot?

Connections
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 981: Flight Risk (2025)

Soundtracks
Who Was That
Performed by Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Written by Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Courtesy of KWS Music Inc. and Rushup Productions Inc.

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Featured review

5/10

You can do a lot worse, but you can certainly do better.

Flight Risk is the very definition of the term "Straight to DVD movie" from which I know it is a redundant statement in the modern era, but you get the point. The film is a low-budget thriller with a decent premise to kill an evening, and with Mel Gibson directing at the helm, I thought it might be worth checking out. Unfortunately, the film doesn't pay off as anything remarkable. Mark Wahlberg is introduced as a wise-cracking, charismatic pilot who holds the screen well initially, but the character fails to blossom throughout the film to anything interesting. My main confusion is the tone, the movie consistently juggles between a sort of intense thriller and an intentional comedy. However, I didn't find the jokes or light humor funny and considering the situation they are all placed in, it just perplexed me. I feel that if the film focused on being a straight up thriller, it could have been a pretty decent little flick. Not to mention a final shot that I found a rather bizarre choice to end on. Overall, Flight Risk contains strong performances, and is nicely directed, but narratively speaking it could have been a lot better.