monition : Major Spoilers for Flight Risk below!I was looking forward to seeing Mark Wahlberg make out loose as a tight villain inFlight Risk- but how the movie actually used him is a disappointment . Whether by fortuity or design , Flight Riskis Wahlberg ’s first villain role in 29 years . He has n’t played a true antagonist since 1996’sFear , so there was hype surrounding his return to the dark side for the lastedMel Gibson - maneuver movie .
I thought the moving-picture show worked as a sport if forgettable three star thriller , butFlight Riskhas largely been savaged by critics . Those same review covering Wahlberg ’s performance have been mixed . Some found his hammy turn to be the highlight , while others found Wahlberg ’s shave foreland unhinge and that his character ’s sexual terror were deeply unpleasant . One thing I was curious about walking intoFlight Riskwas how it would bring forth suspense with only three character trapped in a tiny infinite ; it turn out it sustained itself largely at Wahlberg ’s expense .
Mark Wahlberg Isn’t Actually In Flight Risk That Much
Wahlberg’s unnamed killer is a literal background character most of the time
Once Wahlberg ’s pilot makes his true intentions known , Michelle Dockery ’s U.S. Marshal Harris renders him unconscious and ties him up in the back of the plane . The movie then largely becomes a two - hander between Harris and Winston ( Topher Grace ) , andI slowly realized Wahlberg ’s character reference was - literally and figuratively - go to be a screen background player . To be unclouded , he ’s part of the thriller throughout , but his assassin spend a decent chunk of the runtime unconscious .
Despite being plaster overFlight Risk’sposters and trailers , Wahlberg is a supporting thespian in this taradiddle . This is n’t all bad since it puts Dockery front and centre , but it ’s a bold selection considering Wahlberg is the only true motion picture star in the mould . It ’s also likely it is n’t really Wahlberg seen in the screen background of scene , but a tie-up - in . I’d be curious to teach how much filmdom time Wahlberg ’s pilot has throughoutsince it feels like less than 20 minutes .
Flight Risk Literally Restrains Mark Wahlberg From Doing More
Wahlberg finds his hands tied as a performer in Flight Risk
Menacing as his scourge are , I never felt like Mark Wahlberg ’s killer whale was that major a terror .
In Sojourner Truth , the movie could have used more from Wahlberg . The story has a bad habit of knock him out whenever it call for to focus on expounding , so that means Wahlberg will remain offscreen for another lengthened point . Dockery and Grace are also entertaining , butFlight Risknever becomes the three hander that it should be . Wahlberg ’s pilot needed to project a bounteous physical presence too .
threatening as his threat are , I never felt like Wahlberg ’s killer was that major a threat . He ’s clearly not great his job as he fails to deceive Dockery ’s Marshal , who then outdo him in every fight they have . He ’s neither as scary nor funny asFlight Riskneeded him to be , and the character is shoved to the side too often .
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Flight Risk Would’ve Been Better With More Of Mark Wahlberg
More Wahlberg would allow the thriller to truly take flight
Restraining Wahlberg has the knock on effect of makingFlight Riskfeel too safe . Had his character been a larger part of the narrative , it could have made for a wilder ride . How this would have worked is another dubiousness ; if the pilotisn’ttied up , he ’d attempt to kill his passengers . Even so , the tension deflates whenever Wahlberg is offscreen and his threat become increasingly hollow as he struggles against his adhesion .
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I think some viewing audience dislikedFlight Risklargely because Wahlberg almost feels like a Edgar Albert Guest principal , instead of the movie ’s hint as advertised . I wanted the thriller to be more unbalanced and cruddy than it was- just like the moment Wahlberg ’s character partly degloves his own hand while turn tail from handcuffs . The room the audience at my screening wriggle in horror at this moment is narrate , and the film would have take up more of a chord with three or four similar moments .
Flight Riskfeels like the form of thriller that will be rediscover in five years and become a cult favorite . Despite its faults , I had a good time with it . I just wish it had cut looser - and also cut Wahlberg loose for more of the runtime .
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