Flight Risk
Lionsgate | Release Date: January 24, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
10
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
39
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiJan 24, 2025
Anyway, it’s also weird to find a mediocre straight-to-DVD action movie inside of a major movie theater, instead of in the bargain bin at a Big Lots in 2010. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comClint WorthingtonJan 24, 2025
As it sits in this passenger’s estimation, “Flight Risk” is a supremely bumpy ride that doesn’t quite justify its logline. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 24, 2025
There’s paranoia and airborne suspense, tension and personal, in-your-face violence. But it’s glib as all get out, dumb when it isn’t being glib and not nearly as much fun as Gibson seems to think he’s made it out to be. Read full review
38
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerJan 23, 2025
Flight Risk feels like a free-floating outlet for a little bit of rage and a little bit of shtick, both Mad Mel standbys that he seems unwilling to really examine, within these confines or elsewhere. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonJan 23, 2025
Where Flight Risk fails as a film is not really Gibson’s fault. He knows how to shoot action sequences. The screenplay is instead all over the place, in a way that feels tired and halfhearted. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussJan 24, 2025
It’s just not very fun or engaging. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineMark HansonJan 23, 2025
Given that Mel Gibson makes little attempt to instill any sense of physicality to this dispiritingly paint-by-numbers affair, it becomes easy to understand the marketing of the film’s 4DX theatrical option as an act of overcompensation. Read full review
20
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsJan 27, 2025
From the opening scene, 'Flight Risk's dreary tedium makes a mission out of turning viewers into flight risks in their own right. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJan 23, 2025
It’s a mess of a movie, and no amount of threatening huffing and puffing on Wahlberg’s part can make it worthwhile. Read full review
20
VarietyTodd GilchristJan 23, 2025
A crude, unimaginative, suspenseless adventure whose tension mostly derives from deciding which of its three main characters will prove the most unlikable by the time it ends. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesJan 23, 2025
We live in an age choked with unfunny comedy, from winking advertisements to recycled memes to the limp quips that punctuate most superhero movies, and yet Flight Risk still stands out for the laughless void that opens up beneath its putative comic relief. It’s almost eerie. Read full review
9
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJan 23, 2025
A C-grade thriller that is further dumbed down to dunce-cap calibre, Flight Risk might have worked as an enjoyably grimy piece of genre trash had Gibson not made every single wrong directorial decision along the way. Read full review
0
The Associated PressMark KennedyJan 23, 2025
But no one emerges unscathed from this funny-when-it-shouldn’t-be mess. The movie’s slogan is the weird “Y’all Need a Pilot?” but it should be “Y’all Need a Filmmaker?” Read full review
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