I know I bang on about how good art house cinema is, but I do enjoy being entertained, no matter what the subject matter is and how it is presented.
50 years ago I fell in love with disaster movies after watching Airport 75
You may remember the cross eyed Karen Black as Nancy the hapless stewardess manfully trying to pilot the stricken 747 over the mountains whilst the passengers ( including two nuns and a girl needing a kidney) screamed their heads off.
Half a century later Mel Gibson has US Marshall Madlyn ( Michelle Dockery, Lady Mary from Downton) caught up in the same predicament, but this time she’s responsible for the safety of her prisoner Winston ( a wisecracking nerdy Topher Grace) an informant who is turning states evidence against a money launderer. Their small plane pilot (Mark Wahlberg) who has been chartered to fly them out of the Alaskan Wilderness turns out to be a psychopath hitman ( like you do) so the stage is set for a tense, exciting, old fashioned drama with the three leads bouncing well off each other, as Wahlberg becomes more unhinged and Dockery develops into a worthy adversary.
Flight Risk is rubbish, but remains great entertainment and is all rather fun.
A rubbish film that is rather fun is sometimes just what you need. I confess to having a soft spot for the Taken series
ReplyDeleteI well remember Airport 75 as well as the funny Airplane! movie from back then (What's our vector ,Victor?) but am unfamiliar with Flight Risk. Might find it on streaming, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteAm glad you were entertained by the action and actors if not the plot!
Hugs!
Tempted.... i too love disaster movies but i could not sit there and look at a bald Mark Wahlberg for two hours... nope just couldn't do it... Now i don't mind a bald man but the way they cut his hair is just not appealing and apparently i need Mark Wahlberg to be at least somewhat appealing...lol Hugs! deb
ReplyDelete"Flight Risk" really? Haven't you seen the recent tragedy that's just happened in America? Insensitive to say the least.
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DeleteSometimes we just need some silly rubbish to watch. Nothing too hard-hitting or intellectual. The equivalent of reading a comic, rather than War and Peace! xx
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