Yes, the movie is called Flight Risk. And yes, funnily enough we\u2019re up in the air for most of the screentime. Sure, there\u2019s an opening scene where we\u2019re on the ground and some ending scenes where we\u2019re on the ground, but be real. Viewers don\u2019t go see this movie for the ground antics. The trailer lets you know that all that action\u2019s taking place in the helicopter, and that\u2019s what goes down (or…up?). In The Other Guys, Mark Wahlberg\u2019s comedic magnum opus, he makes it clear to his superiors that he\u2019s a peacock, and they\u2019ve gotta let him fly. He doesn\u2019t fly, but that\u2019s not the point. A flying peacock is seen at the end of that film, but no matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
And guess what? Wahlberg does fly in this one. But not really fly. He flies a helicopter. But he\u2019s not a peacock. Nor is he a CGI peacock with Mark Wahlberg\u2019s voice. No, as a recent Robbie Williams biopic showed, CGI animals aren\u2019t exactly top box office fare at this particular point in time. But anyway. There\u2019s a woman who has to transfer a witness from one location to another location to testify against a notorious gangster, but Wahlberg\u2019s helicopter pilot turns out to have other plans pretty much straight from the off. That\u2019s not a spoiler, by the way. It\u2019s in the plot. It\u2019s in the darn trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wahlberg puts in a decent bit of effort as the deranged lead, and his accent goes about as haywire as the helicopter once the good guys try to take it over. Initially he\u2019s got that Cleetus the Slack-Jawed Yokel shtick when the characters get on board the helicopter, but then it reverts back to a New York drawl once his game\u2019s been exposed. He makes for a bit of decent cheesy fun, but weirdly, he\u2019s not actually in the film that much. A lot of the movie\u2019s admittedly short running time is taken up by Michelle Dockery\u2019s Marshal and Topher Grace\u2019s hyperactive accountant. And a lot of the sound stuff doesn’t make sense. The two good people are talking in the front of the helicopter trying to find a way home when Mark Wahlberg’s baddie clearly would be able to hear them, but he doesn’t. Hey, it’s an action film, it doesn’t need to make sense. Some emotional heft is injected here and there with lame twists and some weak emotional backstory, but nothing really sticks. Other films have done the crazy flight guy film much more effectively (see: Red Eye, Con Air). If you need a short distraction from life on the ground, though, this risk-free flight might distract you for a moment or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Yes, the movie is called Flight Risk. And yes, funnily enough we\u2019re up in the air for most of the screentime. Sure, there\u2019s an opening scene where we\u2019re on the ground and some ending scenes where we\u2019re on the ground, but be real. Viewers don\u2019t go see this movie for the ground antics. The trailer … <\/p>\n