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‘Fight or Flight’ Review: Outrageously Over-the-Top Action-Comedy Elicits Laughs and Spills Blood With Equal Vigor
Josh Hartnett is unabashedly bonkers as a disgraced ex-Secret Service agent who gets a shot at redemption, but only if he can survive another mission.
We see in a slo-mo sequence with a wink-wink “Blue Danube Waltz” soundtrack dozens of folks in furious altercations with each other, throwing punches and firing weapons, kung-fu fighting and, yes, tossing a chainsaw — until one not-so-innocent bystander is sucked out of a huge hole in the side of the plane. Aided only by a surprisingly small staff of flight attendants that includes the plucky Isha (Charithra Chandran) and the anxious Royce (Danny Ashok), Reyes engages in a steadily escalating series of mortal combat dustups all over the airliner, from the first-class upper level to the cargo hold, while passengers who aren’t hired killers duck and cover, or wind up as collateral damage. Ultimately, it’s extremely doubtful that any of this would work nearly as well as it does without Hartnett at the center of the storm, anchoring the bloody chaos and generating rooting interest with a performance defined by propulsive physicality, industrial-strength enthusiasm and an indefatigable willingness, even eagerness, to repeatedly make himself the butt of the joke.
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