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Plot Overview
Two years ago Secret Service agent
Lucas Reyes (Josh Hartnett) let his conscience interfere with
his assignment of minding an unsavory high value asset in Bangkok.
His boss cum girlfriend Katherine Brunt (Katee Sackhoff) to
protect her own job alerted their superiors but first tipped him
off to give him a head start. Now being on the bad side of some
seriously pissed off hombres, his life is considered forfeit though
he's survived thus far in exile. He operates a motorized tour
rickshaw, drinks to oblivion, and lives rough.
Brunt
is currently tracking a “ghost” heading for the Bangkok
airport soon to depart for San Francisco with a godlike super
computer, but there's nobody on hand to mind it. In desperation she
phones Lucas and offers to “fix it”: reinstate his
passport and take him off the no-fly list (“O, ye of
little faith!”) if he'll vouchsafe the ghost's safe
arrival. The double-decker plane is chockful of mercenaries after
both their heads displayed on rows of personal mini big screens.
It's as author Sean O'Brien has described:
I
went over to the table. What I saw made me cold. It made me want to
leave the room, the building, the county. Like the legendary exam
paper of someone experiencing amphetamine psychosis,
endlessly rehearsing the same sentence, the pages of the
manuscript were covered with the same two lines of verse:
Within the Stygian Mines of doubt,
Mine is the Soule, I fear, cast out.
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Ideology
“Fight or Flight” provides a prime example of, (Proverbs 24:15-16) “Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.” Seven is the number of completion and however hard the man of conscience is hit, he keeps coming back for more. The wicked who seek to profit from that computer, however, bring only trouble upon themselves.
Production Values
“” (2024) was directed by James Madigan. It was written by Brooks McLaren and D.J. Cotrona. It stars Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran and Katee Sackhoff. Hartnett is a standout in his protracted fight scenes while mixing in dark humor and not a little drinking. The other two leads play their parts quite well.
MPA rated it R for strong bloody violence, language throughout and some drug material. The fight scenes took some choreographing with care that no one got hurt—choke hold on clavicle, air gaps on strikes—and with dubbed-in audio. They were insanely intense. Runtime is 1 hour 42 minutes.
Review Conclusion w/a Christian's Recommendation
When the plane experiences catastrophic
depressurization during the mayhem, the pilots consult
the manual for what to do—now they read it! Behind
the fighting opens the cabin door with a flight crew member waving
a Holy Bible and saying, “Someone killed the
pilot.” Christians do sometimes compare the Bible to a
product manual albeit one that gets left overlong on the shelf.
This is a penultimate fight flick with an unsympathetic chick, a sympathetic lush, and an overdue good book. For action aficionados. Not recommended for the in-flight movie.
Movie Ratings
Action factor: Edge of your seat, action-packed mayhem. Suitability For Children: Not Suitable for Children of Any Age. Special effects: Amazing special effects. Video Occasion: Fit For a Friday Evening. Suspense: Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Overall movie rating: Four stars out of five.
Works Cited
Scripture was quoted from the King James Version. Pub. 1611, rev. 1769. Software.
O'Brien, Sean. Afterlife. Copyright © Sean O'Brien 2009. London: Picador, 2009. Print.
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