Fight or Flight

Action Comedy Thriller English

A mercenary takes on the job of tracking down a target on a plane but must protect her when they're surrounded by people trying to kill both of them.

Cast:	Josh Hartnett, Katee Sackhoff, Marko Zaror, Julian Kostov, Charithra Chandran, JuJu Chan, Sanjeev Kohli, Rebecka Johnston, Nóra Trokán, Sarah Lam, Irén Bordán
Director:	James Madigan
Writer:	D.J. Cotrona, Brooks McLaren
Editor:	Ben Mills

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Josh Hartnett brings the ‘josh’ in glorified Ajay Devgn actioner

Rohan Naahar | Independent Film Critic writing for Collider

Sat, April 26 2025

Josh Hartnett stars as a mercenary tasked with tracking down a high-value target aboard a flight full of assassins, in a by-the-numbers action movie with a distinct 'Direct-to-DVD' vibe.

The thing about movies that are easy to pitch is that they’re also highly unoriginal. You could imagine the writers of Fight or Flight strolling into an executive’s office and giving them an animated breakdown of the story, describing it as ‘Speed meets Bullet Train’, and promptly being given a green light. Directed by James Madigan and starring Josh Hartnett, Fight or Flight borrows liberally from B-movies past, struggling and failing to come up with something novel. It isn’t a long movie, but it doesn’t feel as short as its 90-minute run-time might suggest either. Hartnett plays Lucas Reyes, a mercenary who is hiding out in Bangkok after a job gone wrong. He is awoken from a liquor-induced slumber one morning by his ex, who operates some sort of shady organisation dedicated to world peace or something. Lucas is instructed to hightail it to the airport and board a flight bound for San Francisco. Aboard the flight is a mysterious, high-value target known only as ‘The Ghost’. Needless to say, Lucas isn’t the only person after them.