2025 · action · thriller · survival
Flight Risk
Directed by Mel Gibson1h 31m2025
A pilot transports a U.S. Marshal accompanying a government witness to a trial in New York. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.
Our read: Flight Risk (2025) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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“You want a stripped-down airborne cat-and-mouse with a scenery-chewing villain pilot.”
Skip it tonight — You need polished action; this January thriller is knowingly pulpy and thin.
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