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Fight or Flight is an action comedy movie starring Josh Hartnett and Katie Sackhoff that is directed by James Madigan. This movie was released in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2025.
The movie centers around Josh Hartnett as Lucas Reyes, who is a mercenary for hire that is assigned to protect and apprehend a target on a hacker known as "The Ghost" on a commercial airplane. But the hero of the movie has a huge problem, as he is not the only one tracking this important target, as multiple other people are also looking for the same target and also given the assignment to murder her as well.
The movie is all about Lucas Reyes protecting Isha, played by Charitra Chandran, who has a bounty on her head in a very restricted environment, which is a commercial airplane.
This movie has over-the-top action sequences, and I must give a warning that it has a lot of violence in it, which has a lot of humor thrown in the mix as well.
This movie has a somewhat resemblance to a similar movie known as Bullet Train, which was released in 2022 and stars Brad Pitt.
Fight or Flight movie hooks it's viewers to the entire duration of 1 hour and 41 minutes with it's engaging premise.
The action sequences in the movie also draw inspiration from the John Wick franchise, as there are lots of close quarter hand-to-hand combats with multiple objects thrown into the mix.
The plot of the movie is pretty simple, and hence you can enjoy the story, whose main purpose is to see whether the mercenary character of Lucas Reyes fighting it out in a commercial airline has multiple assassins who are trying to kill the target, which he is supposed to protect and hand over to the United States agency, who have a keep interest in this character as she has critical inside information on some very wealthy criminals.
There is a lot of high-altitude combat in this movie as the commercial airline is flying above 30,000 feet.
Even though the movie has some great action and also dark humor thrown into the mix, I will give this movie a 4 out of 10 because, for me, the plot of the movie is not well developed enough. The movie characters arcs are not fully fleshed out, which means you do not have an emotional connection with it's main characters. The movie has a lot of comparisons to movies like Bullet Train, which was released in 2022 and hence lacks originality.
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