Lionsgate's advertising campaign for "Flight Risk" credits its latest film to "the award-winning director of ‘Braveheart,' ‘Apocalypto' and ‘Hacksaw Ridge'," which seems a circumspect way of recognizing Mel Gibson as its helmer.

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Gibson, at his best working with big canvases, is evidently clueless at fashioning a more intimate drama set in a confined space.

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Flight Risk is directed by Mel Gibson. Gibson rose the fame after his leading roles in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, but found himself cast out of Hollywood in the mid-2000's after he was accused of domestic abuse and making racist, antisemitic, and homophobic remarks.

The actor directs a painfully stiff thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as a sinister pilot in the Alaskan wilderness.

It’s been nine years since Mel Gibson last directed a feature film. While it wouldn’t be fair to say that he’s gotten rusty, his new effort “Flight Risk” lacks the brutal cinematic energy that made “Hacksaw Ridge,