Wahlberg plays a pilot flying a federal agent (Michelle Dockery) and a fugitive (Topher Grace) across Alaska in the thrilling flick. Wahlberg and his wife Durham, who tied the knot in 2009, share four kids: Ella, 20, Michael, 18, Brendan, 15 and Grace, 14, who all found their dad’s new do rather funny.
Alissa Wilkinson of The New York Times agrees, noting “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.”
Mark Wahlberg shared how his wife Rhea Durham reacted after he shaved his head to play his balding character in Mel Gibson's new movie "Flight Risk."
Mel Gibson challenges himself to just make a normal potboiler with the Hitchcockian premise of Flight Risk. He's not up to it.
The Mel Gibson-directed thriller “Flight Risk” opens in theaters Friday. The airplane drama takes thrills to new heights as Mark Wahlberg — who partially shaved his head for the role — stars as a pilot who’s transporting an Air Marshal and her fugitive but reveals his secret agenda mid-flight.
What will be the winners and the losers this week at the U.S. box office? Lionsgate’s suspense-drama Flight Risk, IFC Films’ thriller Inheritance, and Neon’s horror flick Presence open in theaters this Friday.
Reading more like a play than a movie script, "Flight Risk" puts three actors in a plane with a psycho Mark Wahlberg on the loose. Mel Gibson directs.
Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace also star in this movie about a U.S. Marshall, her mob-connected witness and a hit man posing as a pilot.
"Flight Risk," an action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and directed by Mel Gibson, was No. 1 in a glacially slow weekend at the box office.
The 'Flight Risk' star went all out and embraced sacrificing his leading-man looks for director Mel Gibson's latest film.
Mark Wahlberg stars in the action-thriller, which marks the first film Gibson has directed in nearly a decade.