Somewhere in rural Alaska, Winston (Topher Grace) was cooking a cup of noodles in his motel microwave when the door burst in. Two local cops and US Marshal Madolyn Harris arrest him. A couple of days later, Madolyn loaded Winston into a barebones charter plane. The pilot, Daryl Booth (Mark Wahlberg) was a chatty fellow, who offered a history of how he found his way from Texas to Alaska. Shortly after takeoff, Madolyn learned that both the radio and the GPS were offline. Then Daryl talked about them going to Seattle; he's only taking them to Anchorage. It turned out that Daryl was an assassin dispatched to kill Winston before he could testify against a mob boss. Neither Mandolyn nor Winston can fly a plane.
There is a lot of inadequate securing of Daryl when he is subdued. Repeatedly! By the same token, Daryl had subdued Madolyn and then failed to secure her. Everyone is needlessly reckless and it costs them again and again. To add to the tension, it becomes clear that Daryl got information from within the Marshals, making her question her allies on the other end of the actually working radio. Is she just flying into a trap?
A Mel Gibson film, it is just okay. I'm sure that Wahlberg enjoyed the opportunity to play a bad guy and Michelle Dockery is a long way from Downton Abbey's Lady Mary here. Far off type, which is cool and they are good in their roles. No, it is the script that fails. In order for the flight to have several fights, the characters must leave the opponent in a position to escape or fight back. The characters must be dumb or the story would end after the first fight. Meh.
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