Mel Gibson directs Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace in this thriller where a U.S. Marshall tries to transport a federal prisoner over the Alaskan wilderness only to discover her pilot is an assassin.

Not entirely sure what attracted Mel to this. Cheap rather than claustrophobic. The script is a stinker. Never really confident with what to do after the first act set-up that doesn’t instantly crash the little plane into a mountain. So Marky Mark spends most of the movie knocked out. He goes out of his comfort zone but a new Hannibal Lecter ain’t born. Full of weird little choices, none of them good. A hard movie to take any positives from even though it ticks its own basic boxes on the check list.

4

Perfect Double Bill: Passenger 57 (1992)