The first season of Netflix’s explosive spy-thriller The Night Agent was a rollicking good time. It’s not the smartest spy show out there—not everything can be Slow Horses— but it makes up for some of its more preposterous moments by sticking to what makes it tick: Likeable characters up against overwhelming odds,

Flight Risk, the new Mel Gibson directorial outing, is a similar kind of tale, following characters trapped in a dangerously small plane with even more of a dangerous man. Some elements and moments are effective,