Mark Wahlberg’s Plane Thriller Soars Up the Streaming Charts
Mark Wahlberg’s high-altitude thriller Flight Risk is soaring on Prime Video, crashing into most‑watched charts across multiple countries after its January 2025 Lionsgate theatrical release.
Mark Wahlberg has a plane, a prisoner, and a whole lot of sky to cross. That combo did decent business in theaters, but now that Flight Risk has hit Prime Video, it is suddenly getting the attention it did not quite capture on the big screen.
Streaming bump, confirmed
Per FlixPatrol, Flight Risk is sliding into Prime Video's Top 10 in a bunch of international markets. It is not a one-off blip either; the movie keeps showing up across Southeast Asia, which suggests people waited to watch this one at home and are pressing play now.
- Currently charting in Prime Video's Top 10 in: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand (per FlixPatrol).
- U.S. theatrical release: January 24, 2025, via Lionsgate.
- Director: Mel Gibson. Writer: Jared Rosenberg.
- Box office: about $48 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo — respectable, not a breakout.
- Critical reception: mixed-to-negative, with a 29% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 131 reviews.
- Audience response: more forgiving at 62% on Rotten Tomatoes' Popcorn meter.
What the movie actually is
It is a tight, snowbound thriller: Wahlberg plays a pilot ferrying U.S. Marshal Madelyn Harris (Michelle Dockery) and her prisoner, Winston (Topher Grace), across Alaska. Winston is not just any perp — he is a government witness headed to New York to testify against a mob boss he used to work for. The further this small plane gets over the wilderness, the more uneasy the ride becomes.
The temperature check
Critics were not wildly into it, audiences were kinder, and now streaming is giving it a second wind. If you are wondering whether it delivers where it needs to, one review singled out the parts that pop the most.
"A briskly-paced thriller that fares best within its opening and closing stretches."
- David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews (via Rotten Tomatoes)
Bottom line: Flight Risk did okay at the box office, but it is finding a wider crowd on Prime Video — especially overseas — which is probably the audience this taut, airplane-in-peril setup was always going to land with.