Fight or Flight
Fight or Flight
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.
Alex | Pop Culture Brain reviewedMay 9, 2025
This movie is absolutely insane
And to think I wasn’t going to see it at all
I saw Fight or Flight
So here’s the good and the bad without spoilers
I’ve seen a lot of action movies this year
Love Hurts, Novocaine, The Amateur, The Accountant 2, Havoc
And finally something actually surprised me
Fight or Flight, directed by James Madigan, starring Josh Hartnett
The basic premise is Josh Hartnett is an ex secret agent
and he has to detain a mysterious wanted hacker on a plane
But of course shit goes awry and he has to punch his way out of it
This could have been another John Wick or The Raid rip off
But Madigan is after something more fun and silly,
crafting some truly wild and very bloody action scenes in this tight space
This movie had some really crazy kills that I was not expecting
But throughout it has an excellent sense of humor and peppers in the right amount of silliness and excess
Hartnett is great at nailing this tone, you could tell he had fun making this wild movie
But I’ll also credit Brooks McLaren and D.J. Cotrona’s quick and twisty script,
that doesn’t bogged down with clunky exposition or unearned melodrama
And hats off to their punk rock ending that leaves you wanting more
Now that said, I thought some of the 2nd act complications felt really forced
And I was confused at times by how many bystanders there were on the plane
And the layout of the plane’s various spaces. The filmmaking didn’t build a cohesive map of the place in my mind.
Also there was some over the top, cartoony sound design
This movie is currently flying under the radar, I doubt most people have even heard of it
But if you love a truly fun action movie, definitely seek it out