Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” has been crashing at the box office mid week.
The movie starring Mark Wahlberg had one suspiciously great day on Tuesday when it made a shocking $1.5 million.
But the day before, Monday, the very panned film made just $829,143.
After the Tuesday spike, “Flight Risk” really collapsed. On Wednesday it was down 48%, and yesterday another 15%. The total since last Thursday is just $15.3 million.
So what’s going on? First of all, it’s a bad movie. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a 21% from critics. The audience meter is 64%.
The bigger issue is timing. After the terrible air tragedy in Washington, DC, who would go to a movie titled “Flight Risk”? This is now literally a title that translates into “Stay away.”
No bad feelings for Gibson, an avowed racist, misogynist, and anti-semite. The movie wasn’t going to do well anyway, but this cinches it.
