Film Review – Fight or Flight

Visual effects artist James Madigan makes his feature-length directorial debut with “Fight or Flight,” and he’s chosen quite a storytelling challenge. It’s an actioner, but one set in an airplane, tracking the growing chaos inside a Bangkok flight bound for San Francisco that’s teeming with all kinds of killers and targets. Perhaps there’s some similarity to 2022’s “Bullet Train” and a few other bruisers cut from the same cloth, but Madigan brings a brighter sense of entertainment value to the violent film, largely able to juggle all the hurt coming for the main characters and dark touches of comedy, which is employed to make the whole thing palatable. Screenwriters Brooks McLaren and D.J. Catrona create an interesting gladiatorial arena for the endeavor, and while they can’t always sustain the sugar rush elements of the picture, they mostly nail excitement and oddity in this rough and tumble movie. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com