Paid Post: Film Review--"Fight or Flight"
Josh Hartnett is handsome and sublime in this ridiculous but infectiously enjoyable comedy thriller.
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Warning: Full spoilers for the film follow.
It sure does seem as if Josh Hartnett is having a moment. Earlier this year he gave a stand-out performance in M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap, elevating what was an otherwise quite silly movie into something that was genuinely entertaining and at times pleasurably disturbing. Now, he’s in a new film, Fight or Flight, in which he plays Lucas Reyes, a former member of the Secret Service who is recruited by one of his former associates to track down and apprehend a hacker known only as the Ghost. Once he is on-board the plane where the Ghost is, however, he finds out that the whole thing is filled with assassins and hired guns who also want to take down this elusive figure. Chaos, bloodshed, and mayhem ensue.
Now, to be clear, this is one of those movies that is, to put it bluntly, absolutely ridiculous. The thing is, though, that because it wears its silliness on its sleeve, and because Hartnett is just so damn compelling and charismatic, you find yourself buckling in for the ride. I mean, this is a film that begins with a brawl on-board an airplane in which someone throws a chainsaw through the air. This pretty much tells you everything that you need to know about the film that you’re about to watch.