Why is “Flight Risk” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violence and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a man making numerous sexually violent threats against others, some flirting, several midflight fights with knives and guns that cause an airplane to dive and fly off-course and leave participants with bloody and life-threatening wounds, discussions of a woman dying in a car accident and another in a fire, numerous threats of violence, many arguments, and over 40 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When an informant (Topher Grace) against a high-powered crime figure is transported from Alaska to New York, the pilot (Mark Wahlberg) turns out to be on a mission to silence him, as well as the Marshall (Michelle Dockery) who’s in charge of the transfer. Also with Leah Remini, Monib Abhat and Paul Ben-Victor. Directed by Mel Gibson. [Running Time: 1:31]

Flight Risk SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A man makes numerous violent and sexually suggestive threats to a man and a woman, threatening to rape them. A man invites another man to join him in the back of a plane and asks, “Do you wanna be the husband or the wife?” A man tells a woman, “If we were cousins, we’d already be married.” A man remarks about a “… gal I used to fiddle with.” A man flirts with a woman over the radio on an airplane.
► A handcuffed man stands in front of a toilet and tells a woman that she will have to help him, unless she uncuffs him; she calls for two other men to help him.

Flight Risk VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – A man attacks a woman and the plane she is flying flies off course while approaching a landing strip; the woman shoots the man several times and steadies the plane, it lands hard, and swerves across the runway throwing a man out of the plane and onto the ground, where he is struck and run over by a speeding emergency vehicle (we hear a thud and see his body under the vehicle). A man holds a plastic bag over another man’s head and he struggles to breathe until a woman shoots the first man and he falls back (blood spurts on the wall).
► A woman draws a gun and threatens a man flying a plane, they struggle over the weapon and the man presses a knife against her throat, head-butts her, punches her a couple of times and she falls unconscious (we see a bloody cut on her face and a bruise). A man punches another man in the face and a woman tasers the attacker; he falls back on the floor, he then lunges toward her, she tasers him in the throat for an extended period and when he collapses unconscious, we see a smoldering burn on his throat. A woman punches a man in the face several times (we see blood in his mouth and nose). A man cuts himself free from a strap holding his handcuffs and lunges toward a woman flying a plane; he stabs another man in the abdomen and then the chest (we see blood and the knife sticking out of the man’s body) while holding a seat belt around the woman’s throat; the stabbed man pulls the blade out and uses it to stab the attacker in the back, he falls to the floor and shoots at the woman until she shoots him with a flare gun, and he thrashes as the woman hits him in the face with a fire extinguisher knocking him unconscious. A man breaks his own thumb to try to get out of his handcuffs; he pulls his hand through the cuff and we see his skin peeling back along with blood as he groans.
► A plane dives out of control toward the ground and a woman struggles to regain altitude before crashing into a mountain; the plane skims through the snow at the peak and levels out. A fighter plane flies next to a small plane and a man inside the plane says that they are there to shoot them down. A man threatening and injuring another man and a woman on a plane says, “I do this for fun.”
► Two armed men break a motel door open and handcuff a man inside; they place him on the bed and the man complains of the bedspread being “so crusty.” A man is handcuffed and chained into an airplane seat. A woman looks at two knife wounds on a man’s abdomen and chest as he breathes heavily in pain; she bandages him and gives him an injection of morphine and he says, “I’m dying.” A man struggles to break free of his handcuffs and bindings in several scenes.
► A man talks about skimming a million dollars from another man while working as his accountant. A man threatens a man’s mother. We hear that a woman was T-boned while driving and died. A man threatens to cut a woman into “Tiny little pieces.” We hear that a man’s body was found without eyes, no teeth and no fingers and that he had apparently been tortured over a period of time. We hear about a woman that had been killed in a fire while in custody. A man describes what would happen if a woman fired a gun inside a flying plane. A man says, “I made a Jackson Polack in my pants.” A man says that he urinated on himself after a near crash in a plane.
► A man in a motel hears banging on the window and when he draws the curtains, he sees a large moose outside looking back at him and he is startled. A man yells and startles another man and a woman. A bird slams into the window of a plane midair and we see blood splatter on the pane. A plane flies through turbulence and bounces around jostling the passengers; a man talks about feeling sick (he breathes heavily into an airsickness bag but does not get sick) and another man talks about people “losing their lunch.”
► A man has a bloody scratch on his neck and a spot of blood on his sleeve. A man looks weak as he loses blood from stab wounds.

Flight Risk LANGUAGE 9

 – About 43 F-words and its derivatives, 4 sexual references, 32 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 12 mild obscenities, name-calling (flight risk, Eskimo soup, stupid, honey, baby, greedy, idiot, sloppy), exclamations (suck it up, golly gee, shut-up, heck no, stay calm, hot damn, be careful, screwed, thanks a lot), 2 religious profanities (GD), 22 religious exclamations (e.g. Christ, oh God, oh thank God, oh my God, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Flight Risk SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman gives a man an injection of morphine. A photo shows a woman holding a glass of liquor and a cigarette, and a man says that he likes to drink a lot.

Flight Risk DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Federal crimes, crypto currencies, honesty, bribery, witness protection, trust, murder, payoffs, greed.

Flight Risk MESSAGE

 – It’s hard to know who to trust sometimes.