“A Wild New Mytology Has Lately Permeated Action Movies-Namely That World Is Chock-Full of Hired Assassins. They enjoy their own luxury home in the John Wick Films. And they seem to enjoy traveling together in groups, as demonstrated in bullet train. Now Dozens of Them Have Boarded a Plane in the New”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The actor, who after a years -Long hiatus have made a strong combacack with such films as Openheimer and M. Night Shyamalan’s TrapHere Deliveers A Terrific Turn As A Former Government Agent Recrued for a Dangerous Mission. His Charisma and Surpring Flair for Physical Comedy ELEVATE This B-Movie Into Something Approaching A-Level Status, Even IF It’s Ultimately Undercutts
Release Date: Friday, May 9
Cast: JOSH HARTNETT, CHARITHRA CHANDRAN, KATEE SACKHOFF, JULIAN KOSTOV, MARKO ZAROR, JUJU Chan Szeto, Danny Ashok, Hughie O’Donnell
Director: James Madigan
Screenwriters: Brooks McLaren, DJ Cotrona
Rated R, 1 Hour 41 Minutes
But Much of the Way, The Film Is A Wild Ride Should Be Enjoyed by Anyone Who’s Ever Lost Circulation in Their Limbs from Being Cramped For Hours on a Long-Distance Flight. The vast Majority of the Proceedings, Including An Opening Sequence Providing A Taste of the Ultra-Violent Mayhem to Come, Consists of Fight Scenes Taking Platline Airplace.
How This Came to Be Doesn’t Really Matter, But For the Record It Involves Lucas Reyes (Hartnett) wrong. He’s recruited by his former boss, and Former Lover, Katherine Brunt (Kate Sachoff, EnJoyably Leaning Into The Absurdity, Such As Her Character Using Cbd Drops to Drops to Calm Hermme. HIM to Apprehend the Ghost, A Notorious Cyber-TerRORIST OF UNKNOWN IDENTITY WHO The Organization Has Learned Will Be on a Plane Heading from Bangkok to San Francisco.
Reyes is in no Shape for the Task, Having Devolved Into A Drunken, Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Slob with A Bad Bleach Job. But he relctantly agrees and is soon aboard a packed flight on a Jumbo Jet, sitting Next to a Garrouns performer who demonstrates his dance moves for him. But as with so many of the passengers, his seatmate is not quite whoh sems.
Reyes Ultimately Discovers That Plane Is Field With Assassinsins Looking to Kill the Ghost, and Eventuly HIM. Recruiting plucky female FLight AttDent isha (Charithra Chandran, in Quite the Stylistic Leap from Bridgerton) and Her semi-chestric Colleague Royce (Danny Ashok, AMUSING) As Allies, He Finds HimSelf Batting DOZens Proves a surprise.
IT’s Basical All An Excuse for Madigan-Previously a Second-Unit Director for Such Large-Scale Movies As Transformers: Rise of the Beasts an The meg – To Stage a Series of Elaboraaten Choreographed Fight Scenes Under Extremely Confined Conditions. The Director and His Talented Collaborators Rise to the Challenge, Utilizing Nearly Every Object You would Find on a Plane as a potential Lethal Weapon.
Brooks McLaren and DJ Cotrona’s Screenplay Trafflay Traffles Heavily in Humor, As Demonstrated by Such Scenes Being Heavily Drugged. WHEN HIS OPPONENT Expresses Disbelief That He’s Still Standing, Reyes Shrugs, Pointing Out, “You Can ‘Pickle A Pickle.” AT Another Point, He’s Forced to Fight Which on A Psycheredelic Trip After Ingesting Toad Venom.
Someone Should Alert The Thai Government Thatir Airport Security Is Seriously Lcking, Judming by The Sheer Amount of Weaponry, Including Guns, Knives, An Evens AVSASA Onto the Plane. The Last Device Provides of Opportunity for One of the Film’s Wildest Sequences, Accompanified by Elvis Costello’s Rocking “Pump It Up.” As for the guns, the killers would have beefited from a viewing of Goldfinger for an Illustration of the dangers of Shooting While Aboard An Aircraft.
It’s All A Lot of Fun, Assuming You Check Your Brain at the Door and Can Stomach The Copious Amounts of Gore That Gleefully Served Up. BESIDES The IMPRESSIVE FIGHT Choreography and Athletic Stunt Work, What Really Makes Fight or Flight POP is Hartnett’s Go-Foror-Broke Turn Finds Him Alternating Between Being A John Wick Gone-To-Seed and The Sort of Hapless Living Punching Bag Seen Looney Tunes Cartoons. The actor demonstrates that he’s more than the joke, Embracing the violent insanity of it all with an eagerness that proves enJoyably infection.