‘Fight or Flight’ review: You won’t believe it’s Josh Hartnett
- The 2025 action film Fight or Flight follows Lucas Reyes, played by Josh Hartnett, as he boards a flight from Bangkok to San Francisco to capture a terrorist called the Ghost.
- Lucas receives an offer from his severe ex, Katherine Brunt, to clear his name by delivering the Ghost alive despite a deadly bounty and numerous assassins on the plane.
- The flight becomes a violent battleground as Lucas uncovers the Ghost's identity and fights off assassins amid acrobatic stunts, chainsaws, and intense close combat.
- The movie runs 1 hour 37 minutes, rated R for strong violence, language, and drug use, and received generally positive reviews praising Hartnett's energetic performance and B-movie style.
- Fight or Flight offers an entertaining, if unoriginal, action experience that capitalizes on Hartnett's resurgence and delivers nonstop violent thrills for genre fans.
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‘Fight or Flight’ Review: Josh Hartnett Continues Recent Winning Streak in Enjoyably Trashy Action Flick
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‘Fight or Flight’ review: You won’t believe it’s Josh Hartnett
Director James Madigan’s bone-crunching debut features a full-throttle performance from the underrated Josh Hartnett and irresistibly embraces its B-movie-ness, encouraging audiences to hoot, holler, groan and laugh. Not once during its 1-hour, 41-minute running time does Madigan let things run on autopilot. It satisfies any action fan’s itch with gory kills, crazy stunts and funny one-liners and facial expressions. Yes, it does travel along on …
Josh Hartnett Says ‘Fight or Flight’ Stunts Left Him with Bruises All Over His Body | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Josh Hartnett is promoting his new movie Fight or Flight ahead of its theatrical release this weekend! The 46-year-old actor walked the red carpet at a special screening on Tuesday night (May 7) at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City. Josh was joined at the event by co-stars Katee Sackhoff and Julian Kostov, as well as director James Madigan. Earlier in the day, Josh was spotted in a colorful outfit while promoting the movie around the Big Apple…
Fight or Flight Review
If Josh Hartnett feels like he missed out on the Crank-style action movies of the late 2000s, Fight or Flight gives him the strange opportunity to circle back. Arguably Hartnett’s first movie as an action lead, Fight or Flight is in the tradition of winkingly over-the-top exercises like Shoot ‘Em Up and Drive Angry that make a point to revel in their own violent ridiculousness. With the novelty of those quais-trangressions long since worn off, h…
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