Mel Gibson challenges himself to just make a normal potboiler with the Hitchcockian premise of Flight Risk. He's not up to it.

Flight Risk”—director Mel Gibson’s airplane thriller starring Mark Wahlberg—is new in theaters. How soon will it be before you can stream it at home?

It also feels very inexpensive, which is not a dig unless you’re expecting fabulously detailed footage of airplanes in midair and not cutaways that border on Microsoft Flight Simulator graphics. The ...