Critics lambasted it and audiences didn’t grade it much better. But despite the turbulence, Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” managed to open No. 1 at the box office with a modest $12 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Flight Risk is directed by Mel Gibson. Gibson rose the fame after his leading roles in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, but found himself cast out of Hollywood in the mid-2000's after he was accused of domestic abuse and making racist, antisemitic, and homophobic remarks.

Mel Gibson’s new movie is so bad that even as grossly tasteless an individual as Trump might have trouble choking it down