Josh Hartnett in a pleasant thriller trashy

A new wild mythology has recently permeated action films – namely that the world is full of hired murderers. They appreciate their own luxury hotel in the John Wick Movies. And they seem to like to travel together in groups, as demonstrated High -speed train. Now, dozens of them have climbed a plane in the new Gonzo action comedy marking the beginnings of director of James Madigan. With Josh Hartnett in another example of his career rejuvenation, Fight or leakage represents the last entry of what can only be described as a Hartnettaissance.

The actor, who after a several year interruption made a high return with films such as Oppenheimer and Mr. Night Shyamalan’s TrapHere, offers a formidable turning point as a former government agent recruited for a dangerous mission. His charisma and his surprising flair for physical comedy raise this film B in something that approaches the status of level A, even if he is ultimately undermined by his low -budget limitations and his clumsy tone changes.

But for a large part of the path, the film is a wild ride which should be appreciated by anyone who has already lost traffic in its members to be cramped for hours on a long distance flight. The vast majority of procedures, including a sequence of opening, which gives a taste of ultra-violent chaos to come, consists of combat scenes which take place aboard a wrapped aircraft.

The way it has become of it is not really important, but for the file, it involves Lucas Reyes (Hartnett), a former government agent who has spent the last two years hiding in Thailand after a previous mission has moved. He recruited by his former boss and former lover, Katherine Brunt (Katee Sackhoff, leaning well in absurdity, like his character using drops of CBD to calm down), who desperately needs him to apprehend the ghost, an unknown cyber-terrorist.

Reyes is not in good shape for the task, having formed a drunk and Hawaiian slob carrying a bad work of bleach. But he reluctantly accepts and is soon on a crowded flight on a jumbo jet, sitting next to an artist in black who demonstrates his dance movements for him. But as with so many passengers, his siege is not entirely who seems.

Reyes finally discovers that the plane is filled with assassins who seeks to kill the ghost, and finally him. ISHA recruitment of the courageous flight guard (Charithra Chandran, in the stylistic jump of Bridgerton) And his semi-hysterical colleague Royce (Danny Ashok, fun) as an ally, he finds himself fighting dozens of enemies while picking up friends along the way, including the ghost, whose revealed identity turns out to be a surprise.

It is essentially an excuse for Madigan – previously a director of second units for large -scale films that Transformers: Rise of the Beasts And The Meg – To stage a series of developed combat scenes choreographed under extremely confined conditions. The director and his talented collaborators take up the challenge, using almost all the objects that you would find on a plane as a potential fatal weapon.

Brooks McLaren and DJ Cotrona’s scenario have transmitted strongly in humor, as shown by such scenes in which Reyes, which has already started drinking during the fight, fights against a fighter even after being strongly drugged. When his opponent expresses the disbelief that he is still standing, Reyes increases his shoulders, stressing: “You cannot correct a pickle.” At another time, he is forced to fight during a psychedelic trip after having ingested Venom de topaud.

Someone should alert the Thai government that its airport security is seriously lacking, judging by the pure amount of weapons, including firearms, knives and even a chainsaw, that the assassins managed to spirer on the plane. The latest device offers the possibility of one of the craziest sequences in the film, accompanied by “pumping-the” preventing Elvis Costello. As for firearms, the killers would have benefited from a visualization of Rifle For an illustration of the dangers of shooting on an airplane.

All this is very fun, assuming that you check your brain at the door and that you can lower the large amounts of blood which are happily served. In addition to the impressive combat choreography and the work of athletic stunt, which really makes Fight or leakage Pop is the bend of Hartnett Got-For-For-Broke who finds him alternating between being a John Wick Gone-To-To-Seed and the kind of unhappy living bag of living in Looney Tunes Caricatures. The actor demonstrates that he is more than on the joke, embracing the violent madness of all this with a eagerness which turns out to be very contagious.