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Now playing: FIGHT OR FLIGHT (2024)
The filmmakers wisely decide not to play straight the subject of a one-man army on an international flight with more rogues and scoundrels on the passenger list than there are seats.
Josh Hartnett finds the high-flying career-boosting role of a lifetime.
FIGHT OR FLIGHT (2024) James Madigan / Writers: Brooks McLaren & D.J. Cotrona / Cinematographer: Matt Flannery (2.00:1) / Design: Mailara Santana / Editor: Ben Mills / Composer: Paul Saunderson / Acted by: Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran, Katee Sackhoff, Julian Kostov, Marko Zaror, JuJu Chan Szeto, and Irén Bordán / Distributor: Vertical Entertainment / Rated R / 97 mins.
Parking was unusually tight when I arrived at the AMC La Jolla on that balmy February evening in 2002. The double-file line stretched from the box office, down the hall, and into the parking lot — over a block in total. “What’s the big attraction?” I asked a frenzied rep who was no doubt gearing up to turn away half the line. “Him,” she replied, pointing a thumb in the direction of the 40 Days and 40 Nights one-sheet adorning the entryway to the auditorium. Sure enough, it took two reels for the giggles and shrieks to subside every time the director called for a close-up of Josh Hartnett.
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Trailer: FIGHT OR FLIGHT
Fame came early and rapidly for the actor, who appeared in a string of blockbusters including Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, and Sin City. But comedy was never Hartnett’s forte as evidenced by his role opposite human lumberyard Harrison Ford in the buddy-cop flop Hollywood Homicide. Hartnett told the Evening Chronicle in 2004, “I think trying to stay at the top is a shortcut to unhappiness." He seemed content to take the long way, in hopes of finding a different destination: 30 Days of Night was the last time I recall seeing his face writ large across a theatre screen before his appearance in Oppenheimer put him back in the public eye.
With Fight or Flight, director James Madigan wisely decides not to play straight the subject of a one-man army, assigned to detect a baddy who flies under the handle of “The Ghost” on an international flight with a boarding list containing more rogues and scoundrels than there are seats. We first meet Lucas Reyes (Hartnett) in Bangkok, where he's sleeping one off. He gets awoken by a six-year-old toddler with a spare cigarette stashed behind his ear — that Lucas promptly lights up. His love interest, if you can call what they do love, is a doe-eyed stewardess (Charithra Chandran) who at age 7 was kidnapped and sold into child slavery — but not prostitution. She had other skills her captors found desirable, like the ability to hack any computer in the land within 30 seconds.
We've seen this brand of off-the-grid mercenary dozens of times before — drunk before dawn, a wardrobe that consists of the Hawaiian shirt on his back, and a face that looks like it went 10 rounds with the curb — but Hartnett’s spontaneous reactions to all that surrounds him add an extra layer or twelve to an otherwise all-too-familiar slob. How often are we afforded a chance to hear a macho action hero bitch-whimper upon learning that his boss is none other than the same Katherine Brunt (Katee Sackhoff, in control and loving it) who just two years ago took an acetylene torch to his heretofore asbestos heart?
Given the surprising appeal of his “all in” screwball turn in Fight or Flight, one is inclined to think Hartnett might do well to acquire the services of Nic Cage’s agent. ***
Here's something you might be interested in.
Now playing: FIGHT OR FLIGHT (2024)
The filmmakers wisely decide not to play straight the subject of a one-man army on an international flight with more rogues and scoundrels on the passenger list than there are seats.
Now playing: FIGHT OR FLIGHT (2024)
The filmmakers wisely decide not to play straight the subject of a one-man army on an international flight with more rogues and scoundrels on the passenger list than there are seats.
Josh Hartnett finds the high-flying career-boosting role of a lifetime.
FIGHT OR FLIGHT (2024) James Madigan / Writers: Brooks McLaren & D.J. Cotrona / Cinematographer: Matt Flannery (2.00:1) / Design: Mailara Santana / Editor: Ben Mills / Composer: Paul Saunderson / Acted by: Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran, Katee Sackhoff, Julian Kostov, Marko Zaror, JuJu Chan Szeto, and Irén Bordán / Distributor: Vertical Entertainment / Rated R / 97 mins.
Parking was unusually tight when I arrived at the AMC La Jolla on that balmy February evening in 2002. The double-file line stretched from the box office, down the hall, and into the parking lot — over a block in total. “What’s the big attraction?” I asked a frenzied rep who was no doubt gearing up to turn away half the line. “Him,” she replied, pointing a thumb in the direction of the 40 Days and 40 Nights one-sheet adorning the entryway to the auditorium. Sure enough, it took two reels for the giggles and shrieks to subside every time the director called for a close-up of Josh Hartnett.
Video:
Trailer: FIGHT OR FLIGHT
Fame came early and rapidly for the actor, who appeared in a string of blockbusters including Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, and Sin City. But comedy was never Hartnett’s forte as evidenced by his role opposite human lumberyard Harrison Ford in the buddy-cop flop Hollywood Homicide. Hartnett told the Evening Chronicle in 2004, “I think trying to stay at the top is a shortcut to unhappiness." He seemed content to take the long way, in hopes of finding a different destination: 30 Days of Night was the last time I recall seeing his face writ large across a theatre screen before his appearance in Oppenheimer put him back in the public eye.
With Fight or Flight, director James Madigan wisely decides not to play straight the subject of a one-man army, assigned to detect a baddy who flies under the handle of “The Ghost” on an international flight with a boarding list containing more rogues and scoundrels than there are seats. We first meet Lucas Reyes (Hartnett) in Bangkok, where he's sleeping one off. He gets awoken by a six-year-old toddler with a spare cigarette stashed behind his ear — that Lucas promptly lights up. His love interest, if you can call what they do love, is a doe-eyed stewardess (Charithra Chandran) who at age 7 was kidnapped and sold into child slavery — but not prostitution. She had other skills her captors found desirable, like the ability to hack any computer in the land within 30 seconds.
We've seen this brand of off-the-grid mercenary dozens of times before — drunk before dawn, a wardrobe that consists of the Hawaiian shirt on his back, and a face that looks like it went 10 rounds with the curb — but Hartnett’s spontaneous reactions to all that surrounds him add an extra layer or twelve to an otherwise all-too-familiar slob. How often are we afforded a chance to hear a macho action hero bitch-whimper upon learning that his boss is none other than the same Katherine Brunt (Katee Sackhoff, in control and loving it) who just two years ago took an acetylene torch to his heretofore asbestos heart?
Given the surprising appeal of his “all in” screwball turn in Fight or Flight, one is inclined to think Hartnett might do well to acquire the services of Nic Cage’s agent. ***